Matticus

Really useful article, thanks for sharing. I've seen Glenn Gabe pop up across other people's social feeds/news sites but never thought to seek out his own website.

I've used a lot over the years, and they all have their pro's and con's. I've yet to find one that I'm 100% happy with tbh. It's like picking the lesser of two evils. I've voted for Buffer, but it has got its faults.

Here are some good source/communities to check out: https://dev.to/ https://www.designerslack.community/ https://wpcontent.io/ Newsletters are a great source as well, I'd recommend these two WordPress-based newsletters: https://thewpweekly.com/ https://www.therepository.email/

It's coming home! (If Spain have a shocker)

Say what? Did any one have a first PC after 1991?

Hi Robert, that sounds great. Keep us posted on your progress!

I think the fall out has become less about what nuggets have been revealed we can use to improve rankings and on to the point you make, Google denied claims that were clearly true. Here's a database someone has created about the Google API leak, lists most of the factors alongside explanations, makes them a little easier to digest https://searchrankingfactors.com/

The basic principles of adding a theme, post/page and images have not changed a great deal. You may find working with the WordPress' Guttenberg editing experience a bit of a learning curve (I personally hate it and avoid it if I can, some people love it), but you don't have to use it. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

I've used quite a few Cache plug-ins over the years, and of that list https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ is the one I go back to more than the others. This is another good one https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/, and combine that with https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/. I can't guarantee these will fix all your issues, but you should see a tangible improvement.

Hi there, hope you find what you're looking for!

As already mentioned, hosting, theme, plug ins and images are the places to start. I personally wouldn't look to convert the website to HTML, you shouldn't need to. Your biggest win will come from running a check with tools like Pingdom and PageSpeed Insights. You can use those to identify the biggest drags on your site. e.g. I could quickly see that Youtube, Google Tag manager and Google maps are all having an impact. I'd also look at using a Cache plug-in so people coming to your website are served a static version of your site rather than one that calls back to your PHP scripts/databases that power WP based sites. Minifying/lazy loading images will help as well.

What podcasts are you listening to right now? My go to podcasts WFH or commuting right now are: Ty & that guy (one for 'The Expanse' fans and movie nerds in general) Conan O'Brien needs a friend The Lonely Island & Seth Myers podcast (one for SNL fans) Brydon & ... The Rest is History

Hi Joe, great to have you onboard. It's been a while since I came across Foundation, what plans have you got there?

Instead of generating blur URLs on the fly, you can pre-generate them during the build time. This way, the blur data is already available when the page is requested. // Script to generate blur data and store it const generateBlurData = async () => { const allImages = await client.fetch(`*[_type == "fleet"]{..., "gallerySingle": gallerySingle.asset->{url}}`); const updatedImages = await Promise.all(allImages.map(async image => { const blurDataURL = await getBase64Blur(image.gallerySingle.url); return { ...image, gallerySingle: { ...image.gallerySingle, blurDataURL } }; })); // Save updatedImages to a JSON file or update your CMS with blurDataURL }; generateBlurData(); In your next.js page fetch this data: async function getPageData(slug) { const query = `*[_type == "fleet" && slug.current == '${slug}']{ "currentSlug": slug.current, title, mainImage, threedVideoUrl, "gallerySingle": gallerySingle.asset->{_id, url, metadata { dimensions { width, height }, blurDataURL }}, }[0]`; const data = await client.fetch(query); return data; } Let us know if this helps.

I've had a play with the desktop app and setting up a quick test website, having everything locally definitely speeds things up. Their challenge is competing with the monster that is WordPress, and all the 3rd party plug-ins/themes available with that. Just playing around with Publii for an hour or so, I found myself bumping in to limitations with my own dev skills, and thinking "shame there's no extension for that..." quite a lot. Good luck to them though, I love the idea behind it all.