WordPress Website Tips, Tricks and Resources

Articles

1. WordPress Coding Standards
2. WebsiteSetup: WordPress Theme Development

Plugins

1. SVG Support: Safely upload SVG files to your media library and use them like any other image.
2. Regenerate Thumbnails: Regenerate all thumbnail sizes for one or more images that have been uploaded to your Media Library.

Themes

1. Underscores: A Starter Theme for WordPress

Tools

1. WordPress Template Hierarchy

WordPress Codex

1. Function Reference
2. Template Tags
3. Theme Development

WordPress Website Speed Checklist

Make your WordPress website super fast.

Website Management

1. Remove unnecessary plugins
2. Reduce size of your page
3. Use Google AMP
4. Distribute comments across multiple pages
5. Keep your software updated
6. Minimize the number of DNS lookups
7. Avoid redirects
8. Check your links
9. Test your site with AdBlockers
10. Minify HTML
11. Minify CSS
12. Don’t host video on your own site
13. Compress web fonts
14. Set a limit for revisions
15. Concatenate CSS

Code

1. Load CSS and JavaScript asynchronously
2. Place render blocking CSS inline
3. Properly set up your favicon
4. Place all CSS resources in head
5. Minimize cookie size
6. Set up your error pages
7. Use system fonts
8. Use tree shaking (CSS & JS)
9. Don’t use @import
10. Use critical path rendering
11. Make CSS non-blocking
12. Use the preload directive
13. Use non-blocking JavaScript
14. Reduce and combine external scripts
15. Optimize your PHP code

Images

1. Use the right file types
2. Specify image dimensions
3. Use lazy loading
4. Defer the loading of images
5. Use sprites
6. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Hosting

1. Use good hosting services
2. Use caching
3. Use HTTPS
4. Use keep-alive
5. Set cache headers
6. Turn on Gzip
7. Specify a character set
8. Clean your database regularly