Stefan Ledin 🇸🇪 Webbutvecklare
🇬🇧 Web developer

Headless WordPress som koncept kan vara en lockande tanke. All frontend är helt separerad från backend och WordPress är begränsat till att göra vad det gör allra bäst, nämligen att vara ett CMS. Man slipper bygga ett tema med mallar som följer WordPress regler och vilja. Men som alltid saknar man kon först när båset […]

Efter fem år och en avstickare till Medium är jag nu tillbaka med en egen blogg på min egna domän. Tanken är att detta ska vara en yta där jag kravlöst kan publicera texter om vad helst jag känner för. Allt från givna ämnen som webbutveckling, jobb och internetfenomen till mina cykelfilmer på YouTube. Eller […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

I’ll tackle something that PageSpeed Insights has been complaining about since the start. Image optimization is the topic of this sixth part in the series.

In this fifth part of the series I will do some actual work again. No more experiments with static files, just hands on with WordPress.

In this fourth part I’ll take on render blocking HTTP requests. What impact does the stylesheets have on the performance of my blog? What about the scripts? Let’s remove them and find out!

This is the third part of this series of blog posts where I’ll try to make this site as fast as possible. Today I’ll show you what the .htaccess file can do when it comes to improving the performance.

This is the second part of this series of blog posts where I’ll try to make this site as fast as possible. The goal is to mainly use plugins and avoid modifications to the code as much as I can. In this part, I’ll apply some best practices and see how much faster that will […]

I’m obsessed with a lot of things. Clean code, design patterns and workflows are some of them. Website performance, #webperf, is another topic that I find very interesting, but also important. This is the first part in a series of blog posts where I’ll try to make this WordPress blog as fast as possible. The […]