Since I've been talking about WordPress site performance and speed optimization around here, I've often been asked if I know good, fast WordPress themes with quality code that doesn't load tons of useless JS and CSS slowing down the site. I have to say that I never knew what to answer... All the ...
WP image compressor plugins: Ewwww VS shortpixel VS smushit VS others
One of the key points to improve the loading speed and the Core Web Vitals of a WP site is the image optimization. Indeed, most of the data downloaded by the browsers of Internet users are actually images. It is therefore very important to optimize this type of file as much as possible. I have ...
Cloudflare: a free CDN to speed up your WordPress site
When we started writing our articles in French and English on our websites, we soon found ourselves confronted with a problem: Our websites are VERY slow from countries far away from Europe (Australia, USA, Asia...) That's pretty easy to understand. As the servers of our sites are located in France, ...
Our Review of Mangools – Keyword research tool for bloggers
When we started creating content online on a regular basis a little over 8 years ago now, our working methodology was... how can I say? Very random. We would write whatever came into our heads on Novo-Monde without asking ourselves the slightest question. The notion of SEO was almost unknown to us ...
Introduction to email marketing and newsletter tools for WordPress
Newsletters or more generally emailing sometimes have this image a little "old-fashioned" and outdated... And yet I promise you that good old emails are far from being dead! They might even come back very strongly in the next few years (it's not me who says so, it's Pat Flynn ;) ). On the other ...
All you need to know about big images handling in WordPress 5.3
Images account for more than 50% of the volume of data that passes between the browsers of people surfing the web and the servers that host websites. If images are not optimized or poorly implemented on a website, they can slow down page load time enormously! This is why it is very important to ...
Search engine optimization: Improve your SEO to get free organic traffic from Google
We started blogging on novo-monde and creating content on the Web in 2012... and we might as well tell you that we didn't know anything about SEO and organic searches. At that time, we were simply writing down what was going through our minds, thinking that the information we shared might be useful ...
The best WordPress photo gallery plugin… and by far!
Adding a photo gallery to a blog post or web page is a very common need for many websites. By the way, if you take a look at our travel blog, you will find a gallery in almost all our articles ;) . But surprisingly, even if adding a photo gallery to an article should be easy, it took me years to ...
Project Gutenberg: Will the new WordPress text editor break your site?
As a Wordpress developer, I've been thinking for a while now that I need to test the new editor that will be available to us all when Wordpress 5.0 is released. Due to time constraints, I waited until the end of August 2018 to take an interest in this famous Gutenberg which is making a lot of noise. ...
The complete guide to speed up your WordPress website in 2023
You have a Wordpress site that works but you have the impression that it is a little slow? You have searched for information on the web but you don't know where to start? Don't panic! Don't panic! In this guide you will find all the information you need to optimize the speed of your Wordpress ...
Toolbox to optimize and accelerate WordPress
If you have read our complete guide to optimize the speed of your Wordpress site (or our guide to improve Core Web Vitals on WP), you will probably have already heard about some tools that I will mention in this list, and others not yet. My goal on this page is to give you a list of quality tools or ...
Why and how to have responsive images on your WordPress site
With all the types and sizes of screens that now exist on our smartphones and computers, the topic of image optimization of a website has become quite complicated. In my last article I explained you how you could compress your images to reduce their weight while keeping a beautiful quality (you will ...