Why you should remove the unused WordPress themes and plugins

Developing a WordPress site is often an repetitive process. WordPress is very flexible, because of that you tend to try many different layouts, themes, and plugins. Then after testing, configuring and tweaking you finally come down to a setup that meets your needs, it is aesthetically pleasing, and performs reliably.

Then you take a look in your admin panel and notice that there are a dozens of different themes you have downloaded, as well as the six different social sharing plugins you tried before putting everything right. Once done with your website development, you start posting articles, new pages and get into your groove and kinda forget about the excessive software that is just sitting around.

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What is GZIP and why your WordPress website needs it?

How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn
How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn

If you would like to achieve fast loading time for your WordPress site, crucial thing is to decrease the size of your pages. This could be the difference between website that loads in 1 second and one that feels like it is dragging. Enabling GZIP compression will help reducing the size of your webpage, which usually significantly reduce the amount of time to download the resources (CSS, JS, images and etc.), reduce data usage (bandwidth) for the client, improve the time to first render of your website page and improve the user experience.

All modern browsers support GZIP and automatically look for GZIP compression for all HTTP requests. Today we will share with you how to check and enable GZIP compression on your web server and your website.

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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”

WordPress 5.4 Adderley

New release

On 31st of March 2020, we are happy to meet the new version of WordPress, which is WordPress 5.4! According to the WordPress 5.4 Field Guide this is an update more oriented to the developers, less to the end users, accessibility and the privacy. So WordPress plugins and themes developers, prepare your software! We are also happy to announce that the new version of WPCacheOn 2.0 is completely compatible with WordPress 5.4 as well as with PHP 7.4!

Changes and new things

We always cherished the users, so we will start reviewing the end user improvements and go through the dev changes in WordPress 5.4.

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