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3 Ways to Improve PageSpeed by Moving jQuery to the Footer of a WordPress site.

Here's how to improve your site's rating on Google's PageSpeed by moving render-blocking jQuery to the footer. If you've ever…

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How to create a horizontally scrolling section with 2 rows using CSS grid

Creating horizontal scrolling of multiple rows with display: grid is easy. CSS grid provides powerful layout options to help achieve…

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How to Use WebP Images With Modern Browsers

WebP is the next generation image file type. WebP images are comparatively smaller file sizes. See how you can use…

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How to Move a Meta Box in WordPress

Sometimes you want to programmatically move a WordPress meta box to a more ideal position on the editor screen. Here's…

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Ordering nested comments by the latest reply

WordPress orders its comments by oldest or newest first. So how do you go about ordering nested comments by the…

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Use the hover media query to detect mobile devices

Have you needed to apply styling to only touch devices, or only non-touch devices? Well, great news, the hover media…

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Do you need your site to load in under half a second, on mobile?

Pages that load under one second get more visitors. With every passing second waiting visitors lose interest and leave before…

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How to Remove HTML Comments from the Page Source

Many plugins (and themes) inject HTML comments into the page's source code that aren't really needed in your a live…

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Extracting Thumbnails from Videos

Recently, I've had a couple of projects that require thumbnails for video posts. There are plugins out there to do…

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Inlining CSS – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

I'm a sucker for performance gains to the point that I'm convinced I'm actually losing time overthinking it - 🤔…

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