In my last blog post I was floating the idea of moving from WordPress to a Static Site Generator (SSG) called Astro. Instead, I made a local install of WordPress into my Static Site Generator. WP Code Box, although not essential to this, made things much easier to move toward a Jamstack approach. This is…

There’s a few small, but unnecessarily things that can slow our WordPress page loads. They’re easily fixed with either a code snippet or a light-weight plugin. I’ve started storing snippets with WPCodeBox as a convenient and light-weight option, but of course, you don’t need to do the same. Unused styles from the Block Editor My…

The Classic Editor and Classic widgets plugins are officially recommended for disabling Gutenberg. Both are popular* and highly rated, but aside from having two plugins to install, the Classic Editor does not remove Gutenberg’s styles and recently added SVGs. Although the performance impact is not huge, it’s more things Google wants us to improve as…