Images are important. Even if your blog’s content relies heavily upon the written (or typed) word, how well you utilize images to draw people into the meat of your content and retain their interest can have a major impact on engagement metrics such as bounce…
Apple’s new Retina Display is a topic of discussion among web designers and developers. WordPress developers and designers have already started responding to this new technology by providing Retina Display ready themes and plugins to do that. “Do I really need to…
I’ve been using WP Smush.it on my sites for a year or two now, and it’s an excellent way of losslessly compressing all of your images when you upload, so that you can reduce your page size (and thus, your load speed etc.). However, in the past few months, I’ve noticed that it…
We all have to deal with images on our WordPress sites. Uploading new images to your WordPress site does not take more than a couple of clicks. But if you are taking time to take pictures, you may as well optimize them for your site…
One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly in my weekly WPMU DEV chats is “how can I speed up my WordPress website?” It’s an important question, particularly for businesses who want to scale their website. Of course, the procedures necessary for speeding up your website are going to differ depending on whether you …