Naresh Devineni
Creating content in WordPress
Make sure to use a hosting service that supports creating staging websites
What is a staging site?
A staging website is nothing but a clone of the live website.
We create a staging version of our live website in order to:
1. Test out new plugins and features of WordPress
2. Check if the website is working as expected after performing WordPress,
Invest in high-performance hosting
Why high-performance hosting and what problem does it solve?
I can't speak enough of the horrors that my clients faced with shared hosting services.
For example, Some of my clients run ads on Google and Facebook.
But most people who click on those ads are not visiting the
Stay away from shared-hosting services
I have been a WordPress developer for the last 12 years.
So, I happened to work on at least 90+ client websites to tell you this.
You're probably hosting your website on a shared hosting service.
The name of the web hosting company doesn't really matter
Try to avoid using WordPres plugins for image compression
In the previous lesson, we learned how to compress images manually.
But, if you have a lot of images to compress on your website, it could feel like a daunting task.
It is a lot of hard work if we are going with a manual route.
So, to avoid this
Choose JPEG format over PNG for smaller image file sizes
There are three types of famous image formats
1. JPEG format - Good for Photographic images
2. PNG format - Good for screenshots and illustrations
3. SVG format - Good for icons and animated illustrations.
And then there are two types of image compression.
Lossy compression and lossless compression
Lossy