Overall page size is a critical factor for a fast website especially for mobile users. The usual suspect for making page size large for your site is the images. There are various WordPress plugins for batch optimizing jpeg and png images like TinyJPG and EWWW. This tutorial shows you how to losslessly compress all of … Learn more…
Using Google AdWords to gain traffic for your WordPress or WooCommerce site can increase loyal viewers and customers. You may find visitors who click your Google ad get a slower experience. Google adds a query string that looks like ?gclid=vak234kasd1312 which bypasses any caching you may have enabled. Google uses this query string for tracking, however, … Learn more…
Aelia Currency Switcher for Easy Digital Downloads allows digital store owners to set different currencies based on customer geolocation. The MaxMind databases provide GeoIP services so you can detect your visitor’s location. Automatic currency detection based on country adds extra convenience to your store, however it can add extra loading time because PHP must be used to look up … Learn more…
Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure php7-fpm is always running in case it halts or freezes up – this is very rare but it is better to be safe than sorry. Monit will check the php7-fpm process by looking at … Learn more…
A lot of website owners get used to cPanel when managing sites. One of the challenges of moving to a self-managed VPS like Digital Ocean or Vultr is finding a graphical interface to manage your server. For managing sites I use Webmin (installation guide for Ubuntu and Debian). I use nginx for all my WordPress … Learn more…