Performance

WordPress maintenance is essential for keeping your site running at peak performance and reducing security risks. This article covers the most essential tasks required for WordPress maintenance.

Take a look at your testing suite, think to yourself... If I come back to this project in a months time and decide to refactor this function, which then causes my tests to fail, could I read the tests that are failing and still be able to deduce what I broke? A well written test suite would certainly be able to do this.

WordPress performance can be a difficult task to approach but with these simple tips and quick wins you can be off to a great start.

Create a WordPress theme using Tailwind CSS using the JIT compiler and how to watch for file changes to regenerate CSS automatically.

Have a Laravel application on a subdomain that interacts with a WordPress database? In some cases a REST API connection is simply unnecessary, especially for simple database queries. In this post we take a look at how we can improve performance and use the Eloquent ORM to interact with WordPress' data.

Implement caching in WordPress plugins and themes without using a plugin. WordPress' transient API provides us with the ability to create a database caching right out of the box. By implementing a simply API over the top, we can easily start to cache parts of our theme or plugins.