WordPress 6.8 introduced a highly requested feature: Speculative Loading. But what exactly is it, and how does it affect your website? In simple terms, and in WordPress specifically, it’s a technique that makes…
I’m sharing these PHP-FPM tweaks for pfSense publicly to solicit feedback and help anyone exploring similar optimizations. There may be more efficient methods or edge cases I haven’t covered. I welcome any suggestions,…
Apr 24, 2025 Jordana A. 12min Read B2C ecommerce, or business-to-consumer ecommerce, involves selling products or services directly to individual customers online. The numbers speak volumes: Statista projects global retail ecommerce sales to…
Elementor is a powerful tool for building WordPress websites, but its dashboard can sometimes feel cluttered with upsell ads and prompts for premium features. In this guide, I’ll show you how to remove…
Whenever you upload an image to your WordPress site through the media library, it automatically creates and stores multiple additional versions of that image. If your site doesn’t utilize these extra image sizes,…
Nov 26, 2024 Jordana A. 21min Read You’ve chosen WordPress to build your website because it’s free, versatile, and highly flexible, thanks to its open-source nature. But there’s a catch: WordPress is known…
Looking for application monitoring and observability solutions? On this page, I’ve listed the top application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and observability solutions to date. The listings are updated periodically as APM and…
Nov 18, 2024 CyberPanel provides a graphical interface and various features to streamline Linux virtual private server (VPS) management. However, setting up this web hosting control panel might be tricky for beginners since…
Nov 06, 2024 Jordana A. 12min Read Becoming a successful affiliate marketer takes more than just writing blog posts and stuffing them with links. To drive consistent sales from those links, your content…
Two years ago, one of our Linux community members discussed some reasons behind the slow adoption to upgrade to PHP 8. One member stated that it’s due to PHP compatibility issues across new…
As one of the most widely used scripting languages for web development, PHP is known for its flexibility and ease of use. However, with complex applications and increasing traffic, PHP performance can sometimes…
If you have a look at the Gutenberg “Button” block and click on the styles tab (half moon cookie) you will see that you can select from Fill or Outline for it’s style….
By default WordPress search works by searching post content and titles. If you have an advanced website where data is store in custom fields, you may want to also search those values. In…
I recently wrote an article on how to integrate CloudFlare turnstile in WordPress comments and implemented the code here at WPExplorer. However, I think using Turnstile is overkill and loading extra scripts just…
What are some Linux commands used by Sysadmins and power users daily? In this article, I’ve listed 10 such commands frequently used. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. Also, see Part 2, Part 3, Part…
So you’ve decided to create a block theme but not sure where to start? In this guide I will give you an overview of a block theme’s file structure. In other words, the…
In my last tutorial I showed you how to remove paginated page URLs in WordPress. In that guide I shared code to 301 redirect paginated URLs that aren’t needed. However, in some cases…
Some time ago, I received an email from a client experiencing slow performance issues with a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP web server). During a full audit, I found that the server’s…
