WordPress was born in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of the defunct b2/cafelog CMS created by French PHP programmer Michel Valdrighi in 2001.
The need for an elegant and well-designed personal publishing system was evident even then. Today, WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL, is GPLv2 licensed, and is also the platform of choice for more than 42% of all websites on the internet.
This open source WordPress project has evolved progressively over time, with the support of expert developers and enthusiasts, designers, scientists, bloggers and others. WordPress offers the possibility for anyone to create and share any content. People with little experience in technology, design or programming can use it "just like that", and experts can customise it almost without limits.
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In the recent update of the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) plugin to version 7.0, the AVIF format has been added to its image optimisation option. Since 2023, WordPress version 6.5 allows uploading and serving images in AVIF format and since then I've been using them in longer posts and even manually replacing
Today's code will allow us to add a button with a shortcode in any post or page in WordPress that when clicked will open a modal window in which we can add the content we want. It can be used to display a subscription form, a contact form, a one-off notice, an image,
WordPress announced a feature that interests me because it could improve performance, or rather perceived loading speed. In version 6.8, scheduled for release on 15 April this year, speculative loading will be added. They announce that it can achieve near-instant page load times by loading URLs before the user navigates to them. This
If your blog is a few years old and at a certain point you switched to the Gutenberg editor, leaving all those old posts published in the classic editor format, you may want to convert them now to Gutenberg blocks in one go. Doing this migration can offer some SEO and performance benefits.
One thing I don't understand is that WordPress does not yet include a simple but complete contact form by default. As I regularly do WordPress optimisation work, both here and on third-party sites, I often replace unnecessarily bloated plugins with options, blocks, and decorations that are never used or not needed with code
