whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human…

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onSeptember 30, 2015

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human Made’s way to allow some HTML when sanitizing strings, but not all, while also preventing the performance hit of WordPress’s kses functions.

Business

Web pages are now 2MB on average, and it’s largely because of images

ByBrian Krogsgard June 11, 2015

The steady climb in average website sizes isn’t stopping. And according to Tammy Everts, more than 60% of page weight today is due to images. As internet users, we crave images — the bigger, the better. Site owners play to this craving, knowing that serving bigger, better images has a direct impact on conversion rate…

Hosting

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

ByBrian Krogsgard August 9, 2013January 31, 2015

Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies’ shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren’t. I love Ryan’s views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I’d really love to see this experiment run every month for a year, to see how it…

WordPress News

The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter…

ByDan Knauss November 16, 2020October 14, 2022

The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter is available now with some interesting statistics based on the analysis of over 7 million web pages. Find out what HTML elements and markup are being used the most, and which aren’t. 📊 You may be surprised to learn script is #6, and there is a lot of obvious…

AppPresser 2 includes offline mode and other improvements

ByBrian 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 was an offline mode, which is available in the new version, with limited feature support….