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How to Speed Up a Slow WordPress Website
A practical workflow for a faster WordPress site: measure Core Web Vitals, fix hosting and caching, optimize images with AVIF, trim plugins…
Tag: performance
Typography
@font-face and Web Fonts: Self-Hosting, WOFF2 and font-display
Use @font-face with one WOFF2 file, a variable font, font-display and a preload. Compare self-hosting with Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts, and…
Typography
CSS @font-face Guide: WOFF2, Variable Fonts and Fallbacks
How to use @font-face today: ship WOFF2, use one variable font file, choose font-display deliberately, preload the critical file and build fallbacks…
Workflow
Image Compression Compared: AVIF vs WebP vs JPEG XL vs PNG
We encoded a photo and a transparent UI graphic with AVIF, WebP, JPEG XL, JPEG and PNG. Here are the real file…
Workflow
SEO Guide for Designers
What designers and front-end developers need to know about SEO: semantic HTML, metadata, Core Web Vitals, structured data and AI search, without…
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Useful WordPress Plugins Worth Installing
Which WordPress plugins are still worth installing for SEO, speed, forms, security and backups, what core now handles itself, and how to…