Broken links cause a loss of authority (link juice) and eat into thecrawl budget, as search engine bots waste time indexing HTTP 404 responses instead of valuable content. They also degrade the user experience by disrupting the flow of navigation and increasing the bounce rate. By fixing them with 301 redirects or updating ... Read more
By default, WordPress performs native searches using very resource-intensive MySQL queries that force the database to carry out a full scan of the `wp_posts` table (filtering using `LIKE %keyword%` in the titles and content of each post). As your site grows, this record-by-record scan severely impacts server performance, causes CPU usage in MySQL ... Read more
10 August 2026. This solution has now been turned into a plugin. See updated note. It’s no secret that the WordPress search function is rubbish. Aesthetically speaking, it’s relatively easy to fix; however, its functionality is another matter entirely, as it offers no configuration options whatsoever – and to make matters worse, its ... Read more
Just a quick note to let you know that today we have added a custom dark mode with a theme selector to the right of the top menu. The automatic implementation(prefers-color-scheme) has been replaced by a management based on the [data-theme="dark"] selector that allowed the dark theme to be displayed when the user ... Read more
Between late 2025 and early 2026 I converted three functions I used regularly into plugins, which I ended up uploading to the WordPress repository in case they might be useful to someone. Last week I reviewed all three to check their security and compatibility with WordPress 7.0, which was released on 20 May. ... Read more
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