Ted Politidis 
Optimizing the speed and performance of your website is critical for providing a great user experience and enhancing search engine results. Google PageSpeed Insights is a tool that can help you examine your website’s performance and make optimization recommendations. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for optimizing your website with PageSpeed Insights: To use PageSpeed Insights, go … Read more
I will make your WordPress database lean and fit to respond faster to queries and load pages quickly Optimized Databases Pave The Road for 90+ Website Speed I tune the database performance to the point it yields a fast system response time. The positive effects of SQL optimization can be seen immediately, … Read more
Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics that measure the user experience on a website in terms of speed, responsiveness, and visual stability. They were introduced by Google in May 2020 as a part of its broader efforts to improve user experience on the web and indirectly, affect search engine rankings. Here is a screenshot … Read more
Email lists are used by both large and small businesses to deliver newsletters, promotional offers, and updates to their consumers or members. People can join an email list by entering their email address and agreeing to receive messages from the sender. This is known as opting in or subscribing. Why You Should Grow Your Email List Over time, … Read more
I would like to read this article about how Bears Know the Secret to Preventing Blood Clots but it throws to me a subscription popup and some sites throw a paywall. My developer background tells to me, go check the page code by clicking CTRL+U or left-click and view page source, which works all the … Read more
Testing and debugging JavaScript is important for building powerful and reliable web applications. Whether you are writing unit tests, carrying out integration or end-to-end (E2E) tests, or debugging issues in your code, understanding what tools to use for what purpose will help you immensely in rendering your JavaScript code more maintainable and reliable. Unit … Read more
People tend to give more credit to website speed than merited and attribute to it properties and powers it doesn’t have. Examples: Indexation People think that part of (or all of) their indexation issues are caused by the low website speed when the truth is, that their SEO team is underperforming dramatically. Higher … Read more
Have you embedded iframe code into the Elementor iframe or Custom HTML Widget but noticed it doesn’t render/populate on the frontend or page source? Ι’ve recently found out about this bug on a client site. The issue was resolved by building a custom Elementor iframe widget.
The authors of the Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress have just released version 3.6.3 to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability that may impact as many as 500,000 websites. Although exploiting the flaw requires authentication, its critical severity is given by the fact that anyone logged into the vulnerable website can exploit it, … Read more
Last week I got a request from a client to add some testimonial widgets on an already full testimonials page that allegedly “is not converting”. When I was SEO Manager for WesternUnion.com we had to make a business case for each proposal we wanted to introduce. How many conversions do we expect? How much it … Read more
My latest WP Migration projects were: 3 WP sites (built with Elementor, and WP Bakery, 2 of which nested into the 3rd WP -main domain-).Additionally, I’ve transferred a British Woocommerce website amounting to 32GB of data.There’s no limit to the website size that I can transfer. Issues you might encounter during a website migration:1. SSL … Read more
here is a job posted on a forum: Hello we are looking for someone who can improve a website speed: (Romanian domain hidden) We want someone who can do better than plugins. The website is a landing page, 1 page only, so we are seeking a grade A. Thanks That guy not only can’t see … Read more
WordPress Object Caching is the process of saving query results of the database, so when a new request is generated, it is served from the cache memory to accelerate the completion of the request. WordPress is a Content Management System; hence, it relies extensively on a database. It means that your application database must be … Read more
Have you ever gone through your server logs and discovered those aggressive spiders that your servers at crazy request rates?Here is a quick list of known bots to be inserted into robots.txt User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: Ezooms Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: Majestic-12 Disallow: / User-agent: Majestic-SEO Disallow: … Read more
The recent WordPress update changed the way to edit the widgets on this page: wp-admin/widgets.php Instead of having the classic widgets dashboard you now work with a problematic block editor to manage the widgets To restore the old functionality that made sense just find the file functions.php in your theme folder (if you have a … Read more
MySQL error token mismatch when you connect to a database in PHPMyadmin. if the browser cookies don’t match the error: token mismatch comes up Reasons that generate this error: 1. the /tmp directory is full. Run the command df -h on a server terminal, empty the directory contents when you find Use: 100% and clear … Read more
The website is using a lot of space on the server. The total disk usage of the server is 132G out of the 150GB disk limit. If you have access to a server terminal you may run df -i -h to check the directory (inodes) structure and how space is allocated. The number of inodes … Read more
A typical message created from the server and sent to a WP owner: – – – REST API encountered an error The REST API is one way Wordpress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages. The … Read more
