Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and…
Brian Krogsgard
Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and front-end performance - particularly if a page isn’t using a particular block, the block plugin will still likely load the CSS for that block.
GoDaddy has been inserting JavaScript into some…
Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has been inserting JavaScript into some websites for the purpose of "collecting metrics to improve performance." 😱 Someone reverse engineered the script — an impressive feat worth reading about just for how that was done — and it turns out the script…
WordPress 5.0.3 was released. It’s mainly…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.0.3 was released. It's mainly a maintenance release that includes 37 bug fixes and seven performance updates, with a focus on fine-tuning the new block editor and fixing any significant bugs or regressions.
Greg Wilson’s video on “What We…
Dan Knauss
Greg Wilson's video on "What We Actually Know About Software Development" is pretty fascinating. Greg ends up with some soli data-based rules of thumb that seem to apply whenever you measure variations in performance over a sample of programmers: Count on…
Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some…
Dan Knauss
Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some numbers from their in-depth performance benchmarks to see how different versions of PHP stack up against each other while running WordPress, Drupal, etc. There's a lot to unpack here, but something curious for most…
Is there a science of success? …
Dan Knauss
Is there a science of success? In a new book, network scientist Albert-László Barabási argues there are indeed "laws of success." Here they are, following an interview with Barabási. They may have special significance for successful, established software projects: The First…
WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Thursday,…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Thursday, December 20. It delivers bugfixes and performance improvements 💨 in the block editor that "make it 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks." Here's the current schedule for upcoming releases: WordPress 5.0.3 📆 Release Candidate:…
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
Brian Krogsgard
I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.
NorthStack, by Pagely, is launching pay-as-you-go WordPress hosting
Brian Krogsgard
NorthStack is a new and ambitious product line created by Pagely — but set to operate as an independent entity — where they are attempting to offer a whole new type of WordPress hosting. Very similar to Amazon's broader pay-as-you-go approach, Pagely…
I’ve been seeing more and more…
Brian Krogsgard
I've been seeing more and more frustrated comments, especially in social media, about products getting more complex and not "just working." I recently found this post from Drew DeVault and thought it was appropriate to consider especially with the point…
LiquidWeb has a plugin that improves WooCommerce…
Brian Krogsgard
LiquidWeb has a plugin that improves WooCommerce performance by introducing a custom table to hold all of the most common order information in a single, properly-indexed location.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig,…
Brian Krogsgard
Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig, a community project supported by LinkedIn Learning, Google, XWP, and other members of the WordPress community. It's being described as a "modern build process and progressive starter theme bundled together." The goal is to simplify…
Don’t miss this great post from José…
Brian Krogsgard
Don't miss this great post from José M. Pérez about the ways you can cultivate a "web performance culture" in your company. José offers useful tips that apply to teams and solo developers. All developers need this reminder in particular: your development…
Nazar Lialka over at premmerce.com reviews…
Brian Krogsgard
Nazar Lialka over at premmerce.com reviews the results of performance tests for a demo WooCommerce store on their service that has over 500,000 products and 100 categories.
Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from…
Brian Krogsgard
Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from Human Made, talks about some modifications to WordPress for an enterprise client, Fairfax Media. The WordPress edit screen was rebuilt to improve the default editing experience, and standard metaboxes were replaced with custom-built CMB2 metaboxes, mainly…
Cloudflare has introduced a new ‘privacy-focused’…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
