ByDan Knauss
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Felix Arntz has a possible solution for lazy loading images in WordPress core and is calling for testing it in a feature plugin (WP Lazy). 💤
“With WordPress enabling native lazy-loading by default, it would significantly impact performance and user experience for millions of sites, without requiring any technical knowledge or even awareness of lazy-loading as a concept.”
Cloudflare has introduced a new ‘privacy-focused’ DNS service called 1.1.1.1 that is also supposed to speed up web browsing. Check out this post that compares the performance of DNS Resolvers, including CloudFlare, Google, Quad9, and OpenDNS. CloudFlare came in first at 72% of all the locations tested, with an average of 4.98 ms worldwide.
With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the information posts for new features are showing up. For example, Jeremy Felt shared with us about the latest tweaks to multisite. Pascal Bichler also recently shared the new Post Type labels feature and Post Type templates functionality in 4.7. Also a nice addition to this release: a new function…
Daniel Bachhuber has released his first paid WP-CLI add-on, called wp profile, which, “monitors key performance indicators of the WordPress execution process to help you quickly identify points of slowness.” It’s $49 for early access.
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
WP IDE is a service to take “WordPress development to the cloud.” It’s a bit facetious of me to call it cowboy coding as a service, but it’s what it reminds me of. It’s made by a guy named Wesley Carnicle. I’m not sure how WP IDE will exactly replicate local development build features on…
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