Some six months ago, I wrote a series of seven blog posts called The WordPress Performance Challenge. They described all the steps I took in order to make my blog as fast as possible.
In this follow up post, I’ll share my current thoughts about this important subject.
Continue reading The WordPress Performance Challenge: Revisited
The NHL series from EA Sports is my favorite game since many years. But there’s this one “feature” that I wish they would remove from it. The algoritm (or whatever it is) that sometimes decides that you should not, under any circumstances, win a game.
Valet is the latest product in the Laravel ecosystem.
It’s described as “A Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, No Apache, No Nginx, No /etc/hosts file”.
Run a command in the terminal and you’re up and running with a server running PHP 7. It also promises to take care of virtual hosts for you.
It sounds like MAMP Pro, but even easier. Or is it?
I just ran into an issue when I was setting up a local version of a WordPress multisite. The main site was working as expected, but when I tried to navigate to a sub-site I only found a redirect loop.
I did however find a .htaccess fix for this issue on this forum thread.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
I’ve finally reached my goals of a speed index of 1500 and a PageSpeed score above 80 (at least). I’ll explain to you how I did it in this last part of the series.
Continue reading The WordPress Performance Challenge, part 7: Success is found above the fold