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WordPress 6.8 introduced a highly requested feature: Speculative Loading. But what exactly is it, and how does it affect your website? In simple terms, and in WordPress specifically, it’s a technique that makes your site feel faster by predicting which page(s) a visitor is likely to view next and preloading them. In this guide, we’ll […]

You’re ready to start a WordPress blog but don’t have unlimited funds to get it done. We get it and can help. Your reasons for wanting an online presence can vary widely. For instance, maybe you have a strong desire to write, to make some money working from home or need a way to drive

A traffic spike is when your server receives more simultaneous requests than it normally handles. For WordPress sites, the most common triggers are a product launch, a viral social post, a media mention, or a seasonal promotion. The problem isn’t the traffic itself; it’s whether your server configuration can absorb it without slowing to a

Your WordPress membership content could be circulating on public forums for free right now, and you wouldn’t know it until your revenue starts to drop. Many site owners rely on simple password protection, which does nothing to stop a member from sharing direct download links with non-paying users. The good news is that you don’t

I’ve been using Mailchimp for the WPExplorer.com newsletter for many years. While it’s a powerful email marketing platform, it’s also gotten very expensive over time and includes countless features I’ve never needed or used. Because of that, I paused the newsletter for about a year while searching for a simpler, more affordable solution. Recently, I

What are we likely to see when the WordPress 5.3 release gets to be a reality? And now you can start looking forward on it. The official release date of the WordPress core was allocated on November 12, 2019. Earlier today, the beta version was discharged. You are able to test on the beta version

A VPS, or Virtual Private Server, is a type of web hosting that gives your website its own dedicated resources on a shared physical machine. Read More > You’re not sharing CPU or RAM with other websites the way you do on shared hosting, but you’re also not occupying an entire physical server the way