Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan

Creating a high speed wordpress site for mobile is a challenge in itself. Having worked for two decades in wordpress, i managed to find a way to achieve 100/100 speed for mobile sites (not desktop), passing core web vitals easy peesy, without any caching plugins or lazy load. Our TTFB also greatly improved. Creating high…

If you have already designed a site with wordpress running in another server (ip only) and want to do a server migration to a live site, chances are the links to images or url appear as http://1.2.3.4/wp-content/2018/0/image.jpghttp://1.1.1.1/this-is-a-blog-post There could be thousands of links and images you might want to auto replace to the original domain…

If you encounter error updating themes or plugins in wordpress after clicking update, you will be asked for FTP credentials by WordPress running in Amazon lightsail. You can fix this with this one line in wp-config.php. Restart the apache server

Using redis cache system can greatly optimize caching of database queries in wordpress and can have a performance boost for high traffic sites. Here is what you need to do to install via commandline. More details can be found here

For those whose cpanel mail accounts are not working, make sure you have the correct settings in Cloudflare DNS. 1.The A record for mail must not be proxied. Remove it change to DNS only A mail 11.22.33.44 DNS only 2.The MX record must be specified correctly. For example MX example.com example.com In my case, i…

Fonts kill mobile wordpress speed and can dramatically slow down your core web vitals, hurting your rankings. I am talking about mobile sites, not desktop speed. If you want a fast loading site for speed, get rid of the following.. You are better off using a default system font such as Helvetica, Arial to get…