Tutorials
WordPress Hosting for Beginners: What You Actually Need
A beginner's guide to WordPress hosting: server requirements, hosting types, and what to check before you sign up.
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Resources
Resources
Tutorials
Better SEO, Part 2: Open Graph, Canonical URLs, and Structured Data without Plugins
Open Graph tags, a canonical URL, and basic Article structured data — three more SEO essentials added the same custom-field way as the meta description post, no plugin required.
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Tutorials
Better Performance: Preloading, Deferred Scripts, and Layout Stability without Plugins
Four fixes for Lighthouse's LCP, TBT, and CLS scores: preloading the LCP image, deferring non-critical scripts, font-display swap, and sized embed containers — all without a plugin.
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Tutorials
Absolute Minimum for a Working WordPress Theme
The bare minimum a WordPress theme actually needs to run — just index.php and style.css — and how to build up from there, one line at a time.
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Notes
Varnish with Apache on Ubuntu 16.04
A step-by-step guide to running Varnish in front of Apache on Ubuntu 16.04 — repointing ports, editing the VCL backend, and confirming the cache is actually serving requests.
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