
We measured before telling anyone to disable wp-cron. An empty WP-Cron check costs 18 ms, just 1.17% of an uncached page load. On 100% of the WordPress installs we audited, the default was fine.
There was a time when Flash was the go-to for rich media content – everything from animations to rich graphics to browser games. Unfortunately, times have changed. Flash is no longer what it once was. Now, rather than being…

WordPress parent company Automattic is finally spending the $160 million in funding it raised last year – on plugins, apparently. Late last month, it purchased WooCommerce, a powerful shopping plugin designed to help publishers turn their websites into digital…

So, you want to create a few videos for your brand? That’s awesome. With the runaway success of YouTube, video content is now bigger than ever – and few things are more memorable than an awesome video ad. There’s…

According to a report from CodeGuard, WordPress now powers 79% of content-driven websites. By comparison, Joomla powers 7.2%, and Drupal 5.3%. The report further notes that designers and developers are flocking to the platform in droves; it’s gained more…
