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Why and how to backup your WordPress site (the automatic way)

If there is one important thing on a WordPress site that is too often left aside, it is backups. I know that at the beginning, many people are already struggling with themes and plugins, trying to have a functional WP site… However, once your WordPress site/blog is doing more or less what you expect ...

Gutenberg WP plugin development: wp.data module and the WordPress REST API

When I created my Novo-Map WordPress plugin, I always found the information I needed fairly easily on the web. WordPress is such a popular tool that when I got stuck on something, I would usually just google it a little to easily find an answer to my question. But the arrival of Gutenberg is ...

Create custom Gutenberg blocks for WordPress with the Lazy blocks plugin

As I told you in my previous blog post, I have finally switched to the new WP text editor also known as Gutenberg. This editor is clearly the future of WordPress (whether you like it or not) and will soon be more than just a text editor. For example, what you still know as Widgets will soon be ...

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 ...

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 ...