Helpful Posts
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Speed
How to Run a Site Speed Test Accurately
Online Speed Testers: How to Read the Metrics
Best Free Caching and Optimization Plugins
How Render Blocking Above the Fold Slows Page Load and Costs You Visitors
Caching vs Optimization for Site Speed – and the order to do them
Why Image Reduction and Optimization is the Quickest Way to a Fast Site
How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
Why Squoosh is My Image Optimization Tool of Choice
5 Ways to Create Image Widgets That Won’t Slow Down Your Site
How Pinterest Widgets Slow Page Load and Best Alternatives
How Cloudflare Makes Your Site Faster and Safer
Plugins
Best Free Social Share Button Plugins
Best Paid Social Share Button Plugins
Scriptless Social Sharing Plugin Settings
Social Pug Review and Settings
Best Recipe Plugin for SEO and Speed
Best Comment Reply Notification Plugins
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Plugin Settings
Formidable Forms: Getting Started Tutorial
Export Your WordPress Data to a CSV or XML File with WP All Export
How to Restore Plugins to a Previous Version with WP Rollback
Redirects with Redirection Tutorial
Add Google reCaptcha to Contact Form 7
Hosting
What is Managed Hosting? know before you buy any new hosting
How to Migrate Your Site to a New Host
Header Scripts
How to Verify Your Site on Pinterest with Genesis – NOTE: this works with all header verification scripts for any social media platform
PHP 7.x
Why You Must Update to PHP 7.2 or Higher Before Dec 2019 – has links to posts to help you switch too
How to Check or Change your PHP Version – video tutorial and transcript with screenshots
Extra
WordPress
Ultimate Guide for Creating Links in WordPress
How to Embed Video Using iFrame for Faster Page Load
Redirects – How and When to Use Them
Redirects – How to Easily Create with Redirection
How to Delete Cache Everywhere
SEO
Google Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know and Do
SEO from the Ground Up – Interview with Brian Weiss
Change Post Categories the Quick and Easy Way
Fix Recipes Markup Warnings from Google Search Console
Security
Fix ModSecurity Issues When Adding JS Code to Head Area of Site
How to Find and Whitelist Your IP in Cloudflare
Rotate Your Site’s SALT Keys for Better Brute Force Protection
What is an .htaccess File and Why Do I Need One?
Why You Need a robots.txt File
What Celebrity Homes and Secure Sites Have in Common
Backups
Setup Amazon S3 Account for Backups
HTTPS
The Top 7 Myths About HTTPS Site Conversion
HTTPS and WWW vs Non WWW: Which is Best to Use?
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Free HTTPS Conversion
Gutenberg
8 Pages You Can Make with Gutenberg in 15 Minutes
This book could save you hundreds of dollars and months of frustration.