Free image hosting can save time or quietly destroy your site reliability. Here is the practical split between casual image links and serious image infrastructure.
Optimize WordPress images without plugins using CLI tools like ImageMagick, cwebp, and avifenc. Convert to WebP and AVIF, automate conversions with WordPress hooks, configure server-side content negotiation, and batch process your entire media library with WP-CLI.
10 essential WordPress security tweaks at the wp-config.php and server level. Salt regeneration, file editing lockdown, security headers, XML-RPC blocking, IP restriction, and more.
Learn how to add custom database indexes to wp_postmeta in WordPress. This step-by-step guide covers diagnosing slow queries with EXPLAIN, adding meta_value indexes, automating with an mu-plugin, and benchmarking query performance improvements of 80% or more.
Learn how to install and configure Redis object cache for WordPress. This step-by-step guide covers server setup, wp-config.php constants, the object-cache.php drop-in, benchmarking, monitoring, and security hardening for production Redis deployments.
