Picture deep dive
When I first looked at responsive images I thought that srcset and sizes would be enough to handle most of my responsive images needs. See Concepts and examples of responsive images and How To Use...
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Working On WordPress Performance
Web Performance is very important but at times it can be very frustrating. WordPress introduces additional complexities to performance analysis and troubleshooting. Performance issues in a WordPress...
Updating jQuery without breaking WordPress
I've been working on troubleshooting WordPress performance issues for a while and one of the things that I found is that the version of jQuery used in WordPress is not secure and is far from the...
A way to leverage new image formats
After researching image sizes (Revisiting images formats for the web and Image formats for the web: HEIC and AVIF) and how to add new mime types to WordPress there is one final question to ask. How do...
Supporting additional mime types in WordPress
I was surprised when the WordPress media uploader blocked uploading WebP images. These are not like SVG graphics that have all sorts of security problems so I'm surprised that WordPress supports the...
Image formats for the web: HEIC and AVIF
There are two formats that I left out of the previous posts about image formats for the web: HEIF and AVIF These two formats are based on video codecs and, depend on the parent video technology to...
Revisiting images formats for the web
Every so often I see comparisons between image formats that say one format is better than others or that one format is better for a given task but I’ve always wondered where the numbers came from and...
Customizing WordPress
How do we customize WordPress? How do we make themes our own and add functionality that is not part of a theme or that you want to use regardless of the theme you have installed? This post will...
Do you know where your third parties are going?
Third-party scripts on your site present a potentially dangerous side effect. We don't know what additional assets third-party load. That has security and performance implications. This post will...
Implementing Quotebacks in WordPress
Quotebacks are an interesting way to cite content from other websites. They work in two stages. Installing the extension and getting the quotations # The first one is HTML formatted with special data...