Performance

Daniel Bachhuber has released his first…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

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.

WebPageTest is an open source performance…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

WebPageTest is an open source performance testing tool, maintained primarily by Google. Developers can use to extract vital information you can use to optimize the performance of a site. A well-written article on CSS-Tricks from Eduardo BouÇas shows how you can…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

Setting a web performance budget helps…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Design

Setting a web performance budget helps affect site performance; they are values you set that should not be exceeded in the design and development of a site. Brian Jackson shows what's involved in putting one together.

jQuery 3.0 is officially out. It…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

jQuery 3.0 is officially out. It is a continuation of the 2.x branch, but with a few breaking changes. While the 1.12 and 2.2 branches will continue to receive critical support patches for a time, they will not get any…

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

BusinessHosting

I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…

Konstantin Kovshenin has spent over four…

April 8, 2016

Konstantin Kovshenin has spent over four months working on a new performance module for Jetpack that makes WordPress faster by removing slow actions and filters in core. The plan is to release it in Jetpack 4.0, provided it's been tested…

AppPresser 2 includes offline mode and other improvements

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2016

Scott Bolinger announced AppPresser 2, a new major version of the popular WordPress to mobile app bridge. AppPresser seems to be doing quite well and the team has iterated the plugin a good bit. One of the most requested features…

Google’s AMP launches, Automattic plugin integration ready

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2016

Google launched AMP in a pretty big way.

HTTP/2 hits 25% Chrome adoption, SPDY support is ending

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

This is a really impressive achievement in relatively short time for HTTP/2. From the Chromium blog: Over 25% of resources in Chrome are currently served over HTTP/2, compared to less than 5% over SPDY. Based on such strong adoption, starting…

WordPress at Scale

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

Hosting

The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

It is the season for version…

January 18, 2016

It is the season for version 2.5, apparently. Both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads have had major feature releases lately, both to 2.5 (which is arbitrary but fun). Easy Digital Downloads includes a new export tool for reporting, revamped settings…

Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did…

December 10, 2015

Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did some new benchmarks on HHVM and PHP7, and says that HHVM still comes out on top. The results surprised me a bit, but PHP7 is nonetheless an amazing performance improvement.

Wade Hammes documents his process for…

November 11, 2015

Wade Hammes documents his process for getting performance under control for the TrackMaven website. He cites WordPress in his "performance bankruptcy" admission, but his fixes are largely non-WordPress related, other than using W3TC. It's still a worthwhile read if you're…

Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites

Brian Krogsgard

November 2, 2015

Running large, long running publications can come with significant challenges. I think one of the shining examples of WordPress in action on the web today is WIRED. In their latest engineering update, Kathleen Vignos shares that they've moved more than…

Playing with type

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2015

DesignHosting

Good typography choices and practices can be elusive to non-designers. But choosing a great typeface is possible, even if you're not an expert. There are many great tools, resources, and tips available to help us make the right decisions.

Daniel Bachhuber has released his first…

WebPageTest is an open source performance…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Setting a web performance budget helps…

jQuery 3.0 is officially out. It…

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Konstantin Kovshenin has spent over four…

AppPresser 2 includes offline mode and other improvements

Google’s AMP launches, Automattic plugin integration ready

HTTP/2 hits 25% Chrome adoption, SPDY support is ending

WordPress at Scale

It is the season for version…

Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did…

Wade Hammes documents his process for…

Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites

Playing with type

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