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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 tried to improve a site’s performance on Google’s PageSpeed, you’ve probably seen that one of the “Opportunities” is to “Eliminate render-blocking resources”. These resources are typically CSS and JavaScript files. Usually, it’s not easy to […]

Remove menu link types from the WordPress menu options screen

On a client site, we wanted to restrict menu items to Custom Links, only. Thus remove all other menu types. The main drive behind this was to improve the user experience and reduce confusion, as the menu is only for Social Links. With a brief search yielding very little I set about coding a solution, […]

How to break long words using CSS @supports

Recently, I had an odd scenario where wrapping long text needed either word-wrap, overflow-wrap or word-break to achieve the same overflow pattern across different browsers. To arrive at a suitable solution I opted to use @supports to maintain control of the declarations. What is @supports? @supports is a feature query, whose associated block of statments […]

Conditionally enqueue scripts and stylesheets on specific pages

There are many use-cases where scripts and stylesheets only need to be loaded on certain pages. One such example would be to only load the JavaScript and CSS stylesheets for Contact Form 7 (a lightweight contact form plugin) on the contact page. This article will demonstrate how to conditionally load the JS and CSS for […]

Using LD+JSON Schema to Enhance SEO for Blog Posts

Schema markup helps search engines understand your content by describing its primary purpose, in a machine-friendly way. The most recent, and in my opinion, the easiest to maintain, is ld+json, which is contained in a script tag, proving the search engines with the key data. What does ld+json markup look like? The best way to […]