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Updating an Existing WordPress Theme with a New Design: What’s Involved and Common Pitfalls

Giving an existing WordPress site a “facelift” with a new design can be a challenging task. A redesign might be necessary to refresh the look of a site to meet modern design trends, improve the user experience, and/or implement branding changes. It's important to...

The Strengths and Limitations of WP Rocket

by Web1776 | Performance, Technology, WordPress

The WP Rocket plugin is a powerful tool for optimizing the load times of your WordPress site. Many of its features are one-click and done, but it does have limitations. Some optimizations still need to be done by hand to pass certain Core Web Vital metrics. ...

WordPress Translation: Comparing WPML and GTranslate

by Web1776 | Multilingual, WordPress

There are many options when it comes to making a WordPress site multilingual. Two popular choices are WPML and GTranslate. Both allow you to fully translate your site into many languages, but each has a different method of doing so, each with their own pros and cons....

Optimizing PSI Score with WP Rocket

by Web1776 | Best practices, CMS, Performance, Technology, WordPress

Users expect websites to load quickly, and search engines like Google prioritize fast-loading sites in their rankings. One powerful tool for optimizing website performance is WP Rocket, a leading WordPress caching and optimization plugin. In this guide, we'll explore...

Website Speed is Linked to SEO Ranking

by Web1776 | Best practices, SEO, Technology, Web Standards

Overview The loading speed of your website has always been important, but since 2021 Google has made speed performance a more important ranking factor on their search engine. Your search Google ranking is likely to suffer if it does not hit certain benchmarks for both...

When to use Gutenberg Block Editor and/or ACF Flexible Content

by Web1776 | Best practices, CMS, WordPress

Benefits of Gutenberg Block Editor. The editor shows what users will see There are many plugins that add additional blocks Since all page content is stored in a standard way, less effort is required to ensure that other functionality knows where to look for this...

Using WordPress with React

by Web1776 | Technology, WordPress

There is a good bit of chatter out on the web promoting the use of React as a substitute for a website built with WordPress. Using React does make sense in certain situations, but not as a blanket solution. Below we explore this premise and some of the claims made by...