Keeping a clean and secure WordPress site is best practice. This means the database doesn’t have unnecessary bloat and all plugins are useful and up-to-date. A clean WordPress site is essential for making troubleshooting easy in case things ever go pear-shaped. Inactive plugins that are outdated and have security vulnerabilities are still dangerous for your … Learn more…
I recently set up Mailgun for a Codeable client who was using Contact Form 7. Unfortunately after integrating Mailgun to improve the reliability of email delivery, the formatting of the emails was not quite right. I managed to isolate the issue to a setting called Use HTML Content Type in Contact Form 7 which had … Learn more…
People often use Google PageSpeed Insights tool to identify potential performance improvements by correcting the warnings. While I generally advise clients to focus on first byte and page load time rather than scores since they matter more for SEO, my client on Codeable required good scores on Google PageSpeed Insights in order to get into … Learn more…
The wp_options table can be very bloated due to all the settings placed there by themes and plugins. I clean up WordPress options tables quite often for my clients on Codeable to help speed up the wp-admin dashboard area. If you use a plugin that stores a lot of transient or session data in the options … Learn more…
Daniel really pulled out all the stops when he created the wp profile command – kind of like a New Relic alternative (see this great Kinsta post about using New Relic) it can help pinpoint which components are slowing your WordPress site down. Originally available from runcommand as a premium package, it is now free on … Learn more…