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Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

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…

If you want to start reading…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

If you want to start reading ahead for PHP 8, follow this post from Brent Roose as it evolves. There is quite a bit of information to read already. I'm particularly interested in the JIT ("just in time") compiler that…

Gutenberg 7.3 has rolled with lots…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

Gutenberg 7.3 has rolled with lots of bugfixes, enhancements, and performance gains. The most notable new features are the text and background color selectors. 🎨

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that…

Dan Knauss

January 20, 2020

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that feature the new preloading feature in PHP 7.4. Brent says, "I think it's safe to say that preloading... will have a positive performance impact, also on real-life projects built upon a full-blown framework." 🚆

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” became available last…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

WordPress 5.3 "Kirk" became available last week with the new default theme, Twenty Twenty, and a host of new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements for the block editor. Hot on its heels, here's Gutenberg 6.9. 📦✨ New things to…

WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 is out,…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 is out, with the final release still slated for November 12, 2019. The announcement of the beta came with other news and details of interest to developers and users. For starters, WordPress 5.3 has introduced a…

10up has made some improvements to…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

10up has made some improvements to its Distributor plugin, a solution that makes it "easy to syndicate and reuse content across WordPress-powered websites." Helen Hou-Sandi describes some impressive performance gains and new support for "filtering the content available from external…

Speaking of performance boosts, SpinupWP has…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Speaking of performance boosts, SpinupWP has published a terrific introduction to WordPress caching. After reading this, you should have a better understanding of how the various layers of caching play a role in speeding up WordPress page load times.

📺 I have two videos for…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

📺 I have two videos for you this week that are well worth a look: Kat Marchán

ReviewSignal has published the 2019 version…

Dan Knauss

May 13, 2019

ReviewSignal has published the 2019 version of the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks report. It focuses only on performance, not features or anything else about the hosts that were tested. 💨 The tests are not (and never have been) sponsored, but…

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 has been…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 has been released. The highlights include: Significant performance improvements to the block editor. New blocks for RSS, search, calendar, tag cloud, and more. A new block management tool to switch blocks on and off. Phase one…

Andrey Savchenko released a new version…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Andrey Savchenko released a new version of Laps, which is a plugin that shows performance information about WordPress page loads. Laps 3.3 adds plotting for early SQL queries and individual plugin load tracking on WordPress 5.1.

Zac Gordon recently announced the launch…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Zac Gordon recently announced the launch of Gatsby Themes, which is intended to be a home for "popular WordPress themes that have been ported to Gatsby." Twenty Nineteen is one of the first themes ready for use with Gatsby, a static…

WordPress 5.1 “Betty” was released yesterday with…

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

WordPress 5.1 "Betty" was released yesterday with many new features and enhancements. First and foremost are WordPress’s first Site Health features, significant performance improvements (especially in the editor), and numerous developer features. Developers, make sure you check out the field guide. 📕…

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest…

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest weekly WordPress developer meeting: WordPress 5.1 RC1 is already out with RC2 either "late this week or early next week." The final version is on target for 2/21. WordPress 5.1.1 will probably be released…

A variety of changes and additions…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

A variety of changes and additions are coming to WordPress 5.1 — developers take note: New "short circuit filters" for WP_User_Query and count_users(). There's also LIKE support for meta keys. Some developer-focused changes to the Cron API, including new functions and filters that…

Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

If you want to start reading…

Gutenberg 7.3 has rolled with lots…

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that…

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” became available last…

WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 is out,…

10up has made some improvements to…

Speaking of performance boosts, SpinupWP has…

📺 I have two videos for…

ReviewSignal has published the 2019 version…

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 has been…

Andrey Savchenko released a new version…

Zac Gordon recently announced the launch…

WordPress 5.1 “Betty” was released yesterday with…

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest…

A variety of changes and additions…

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