WordPress

A couple of links regarding fixing mixed content errors.

A handy snippet of code to check if a WordPress menu is empty.

These are some references for integration with Complianz GDPR and CCPA plugin. The plugin does not integrate well with lazy loading scripts, so this is an opportunity for a commercial integration plugin.

This is a reference to WP Scripts, an npm package of pre-made configurations for webpack meant to help simplify the front end development workflow. This package is included in the underscores ( _s) starter theme. The package includes configurations for CSS and JS linters, unit and end to end testing, Sass compilation, and code splitting.

This is a placeholder for notes regarding oEmbed in WordPress. This is key after all: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/ YouTube’s iframe API: IFrame Player API How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API? https://oembed.com/ YouTube oEmbed support WordPress (Pods) oEmbed Items https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-hook-for-built-in-oembed-providers-eg-youtube/ How to get a YouTube thumbnail from a YouTube iframe? YouTube Data

I have mentioned in a few posts that I have been studying methods to speed up or perhaps more accurately, improve Lighthouse based page speed scores, for WordPress sites. As a test case I am using this site with it’s modest (aka cheap, shitty, shared) hosting. So far the results have been encouraging enough for

I wrote before on using Lighthouse to measure website performance and on speeding up WordPress. Today I found this interesting article regarding Core Web Vitals, the push by Google to make these a factor in ranking search results, and how the burden seemingly falls on the publisher of the site to improve these parameters rather

This is a placeholder for information regarding optimizing WordPress performance.