Getting to Know the WordPress Transients API
If you’ve spent much time learning about computer performance, you’re probably at least vaguely familiar with the idea of caching. Caching means a lot of things in a lot of different contexts, but at...
View ArticleThree Ways to Learn the WordPress Transients API (With Pippin Williamson)
If you’ve been meaning to learn WordPress’s Transients API, today is your lucky day! Soon you’ll be just rolling in cache. (If you didn’t get that joke, you should definitely continue reading.) We’re...
View ArticleGetting to Know the WordPress Transients API
If you’ve spent much time learning about computer performance, you’re probably at least vaguely familiar with the idea of caching. Caching means a lot of things in a lot of different contexts, but at...
View ArticleThree Ways to Learn the WordPress Transients API (With Pippin Williamson)
If you’ve been meaning to learn WordPress’s Transients API, today is your lucky day! Soon you’ll be just rolling in cache. (If you didn’t get that joke, you should definitely continue reading.) We’re...
View ArticleBlazing-Fast Dynamic Caching for WordPress: Interview with SiteGround’s...
This week, we interview Hristo Pandjarov from SiteGround. Hristo is helping lead the development of SiteGround’s CachePress caching plugin (want to know how to use that? We explain here)—part of an...
View ArticleUsing PHP Cookies in WordPress
I’ve always been scared of creating PHP cookies. Cookies are an extremely widely used web technology consisting of little pieces of data that live on your device and remember things: for example, the...
View ArticleUsing Cookies in WordPress, Part II: Cache-Busting with Ajax
Caching makes everything harder. If you’re writing good code and then you—and your clients, coworkers, etc.—are seeing absolutely no result, the issue is typically caching. In fact, a lovingly cited...
View ArticleWordPress Caching: The Six Different Things People May Mean
“Caching” is, generally, the solution you hear offered for most performance problems a WordPress site has. For things other than WordPress sites, too, caching is one of the easiest and most effective...
View ArticleCourse: Clarifying Technical Terms with Multiple Meanings in WordPress
This course works to straighten out the many meanings of several key technical terms.In WordPress development, some words just keep cropping up. Words like “post,” “page,” and “template” show up...
View ArticleGet Around Your ISP’s DNS Cache with Google’s Public DNS
Get Around Your ISP’s DNS Cache with Google’s Public DNS →If you’ve ever migrated a WordPress site to new hosting, you know that one of the many ways the process can turn confusing is DNS caching by...
View ArticleHow to Clear Your SiteGround Cache
One reason we love SiteGround is its comprehensive WordPress caching solution, SuperCacher. It sits on SiteGround’s own servers so it’s much faster and better tailored to your site than plugin-based...
View Article“301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached”
“301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached” →Sometimes all you need is a good article title to let you know what your problem is.I’m putting in a number of 301 redirects for a client this...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Browser Caching of a CSS Stylesheet in WordPress
This video and text Quick Guide explains how to prevent browser caching of CSS files, with a special focus on doing this for WordPress sites.Why Browsers Cache CSS StylesheetsWhen a browser caches a...
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