Occasionally, WordPress can get stuck in maintenance mode, leaving your site inaccessible to visitors. This typically happens during updates to the core, themes, or plugins, and it can be frustrating when your site displays “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check [...]
In this post, we’ll explore how to toggle CSS classes on HTML elements using JavaScript and data attributes. This approach keeps your JavaScript generic and reusable – instead of writing a separate click handler for every toggle, you define the [...]
The :has pseudo-class in CSS is a powerful selector introduced in CSS Selectors Level 4. This property allows developers to apply styles to an element based on the presence of its descendants or related elements, effectively enabling “parent” selectors, which [...]
To remove a category from the main loop in WordPress, you need to modify the functions.php file of your theme. Here’s a step-by-step guide to accomplish this: Locate the functions.php File Go to your WordPress dashboard. Navigate to Appearance > [...]
The LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint, is one of the three Core Web Vitals (alongside INP and CLS). The LCP metric measures the time from when the user starts loading a page to when the largest text block or image [...]
It is possible and advisable (in most cases) to prevent search engines from indexing search results pages on your WordPress site. These pages offer no unique value to searchers and their indexation wastes crawl budget that could be spent on [...]
hreflang, which is also referred to as rel="alternate" hreflang="x", is a method in multi-language websites for marking pages that contain identical content but are intended for different languages and/or regions. The feature serves as a signal for search engines and [...]
Coupons, in our case WooCommerce coupons, can boost sales in your online store. You can sell products faster, sell more products, and even increase traffic to your site using these coupons. Using coupons also allows you to improve brand awareness, [...]
Whether you’ve noticed it or not, in recent years, the topic of optimization and performance of websites has become a hot topic. It primarily focuses on the loading time of websites and is achieved by reducing the overall weight of [...]
There are quite a few ways to improve the loading time of WordPress sites which I have written about in previous articles. However, there is one action I do not see being performed often by WordPress developers, which is selectively [...]
CMB2 (Custom Meta Boxes 2) is a popular developer toolkit for creating metaboxes, custom fields, and forms in WordPress. If you’ve been using ACF for custom fields, CMB2 is worth knowing about – it takes a code-first approach that many [...]
By default, WooCommerce uses AJAX to add products to the cart on archive pages without a page reload. However, the add-to-cart button on single product pages triggers a full page refresh. This guide shows how to enable AJAX add-to-cart on [...]