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Speed Up WordPress

June 16, 2021
Lighthouse report in Chrome after speed optimization.

Speed is very important online. First of all because the user’s get impatient after 3-4 seconds. Speed is also one of the factors that will improve your SEO ranking.

How do you speed up WordPress. First of all: use Lighthouse in the Chrome browser and follow the suggetions. On my website the images needed optimization. And for some reason the meta tag “description” was missing. Therefore the score was low.

Images

Some of my images were just too large. In the Media section you can crop and resize images. This will speed up things immediately.

Lighthouse suggested to install a lazy load plugin. Again the performance skyrocketed.

Missing Meta Description

The missing meta description ought to be a simple job for a plugin. I tried a few with no good result. Then I decided to add the missing SEO tags to the header.php.

I used the Open Graph tool in order to create the Social Media Specific tags. And an online meta tag creator. Again the result was amazing. The SEO score went from 87 to 91.

Below you see the meta tags I used:
```

  <meta name="description" content="A large collection of free tutorials about: WordPress, REST API, JavaScript. Also you can get insight into the art of databases, PHP and much more.">
  <meta name="keywords" content="WordPress, Linux, REST API, JavaSScript, PHP, free tutorial">
  <meta name="copyright" content="Per Skolander Thykjaer Jensen">
  <meta name="language" content="EN">
  

  
  <meta property="og:title" content="Multimusen - tips, tricks and tutorials about WordPress and UX">
  <meta property="og:site_name" content="Multimusen.dk">
  <meta property="og:url" content="https://multimusen.dk">
  <meta property="og:description" content="Hundreds of tutorials about WordPress development, REST API, JavaScript. Tutorials about WordPress backend, the database and PHP. By Per Skolander Thykjaer Jensen, MA IT.">
  <meta property="og:type" content="website">
  <meta property="og:image" content="https://multimusen.dk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-cropped-cropped-multimusen-150-150-1.png">
  
```
Now the SEO stuff shoul go in my theme’s <head> section. In a child theme this is easy:
1. Copy the file header.php from the parent theme folder to the child theme folder.
2. Copy-paste the meta tags somewhere convenient in the <head> section.
3. Save the file and upload header.php to the child theme folder.
Cache

One of the things that will speed up WordPress is a good cache. The cache will create static pages. These pages will load faster.

But when you edit your code remember to clear the cache. If you don’t see the result right away try to clear the cache – both on WordPress and in your browser. Suddenly things will work out fine.

Experiment with the cache – this will make your site really fast.
WCEU 2021

June 7, 2021
This years WCEU is much more than yet another Zoom event. The conferencing platform is a great and pleasant surprise.

Profile … done … ready!

Entering is as simple as clicking your personal link. Boom! After a small intro I created my user profile. And was ready to go. A few minutes later a company asked for an interview. Even before the event began we were networking.

So far I’ve attended sessions about Scrum, Gutenberg and O’Auth. One of the most interesting session was not a talk – but a coffe break with four developers from all corners of the World.

#WCEU 2021 Opening

One of the developers recommended using the “WP Engine” plugin with the REST API if you want to use the styles from a block builder in the design.

Here is my planned schedule, however I’m sure that I may change my mind here and there. Here are the YouTube recordings from WCEU:
- Track 1 Day One
- Track 2 Day One
- Track 1 Day Two
- Track 2 Day Two
Figma / WordPress Prototyping

In the design team the Figma prototyping tools were introduced:
- WordPress Figma
- WordPressdesign Figma
Boss GT-1 Guitar Effects

March 18, 2021

The Boss GT-1 can emulate 27 different amps. They are named in a weird way, probably in order to avoid copyright issues. So far I have only found one list, that suggests the “real” names of the simulated amps. In this blog post Michael Rendon suggests what the names of the simulated ams could be.

The list is long – around 27 amps or so are listed. I have commented a few of the amps, and added links to articles about a few of them.

Rendon’s List

“NATRL CLN (NATURAL CLEAN)
An unembellished, clean sound that minimizes the amp’s idiosyncrasies, such as its trebly character and boomy low end.

FUL RANGE (FULL RANGE)
An amp with a broad frequency range and an extremely flat response. Good for acoustic guitar.

CB CRUNCH (COMBO CRUNCH)
Crunch sound that allows the nuances of your picking to be expressed even more faithfully than on conventional combo amps.

ST CRUNCH (STACK CRUNCH)
Great-feeling crunch sound that responds well to picking dynamics while retaining all the defining characteristics of a 4 x 12” speaker cabinet.

HiGAIN STK (HiGAIN STACK)
High-gain sound of a vintage Marshall specially revamped in a way that is possible only with COSM modeling technology.

POWER DRV (POWER DRIVE)
A straight drive sound that works well in a broad range of situations, from backing to lead. A sound like this cannot be obtained from any existing combo amp or stack amp.

XTREM LD (EXTREM LEAD)
A new type of sound that smoothes out the uneven frequency response that is typical of existing large stack amps.

CORE MTL (CORE METAL)
A large stack sound that has been tweaked extensively in the pursuit of the ultimate metal sound.

JC-120
This models the sound of the Roland JC-120.

CLEAN TWIN
This models a Fender Twin Reverb.

PR CRUNCH (PRO CRUNCH)
This models a Fender Pro Reverb.

TWEED
This models a Fender Bassman 4 x 10” Combo.
– Here I’d suggest that the modelled amp simulates the classic Fender Tweed (1948-1960). / petj

DxCRUNCH (DELUXE CRUNCH)
This models a Fender Deluxe Reverb.

VO DRIVE
This models the drive sound of a VOX AC-30TB. This is a sound that it suited to sixties-style British rock.

VO LEAD
This models the lead sound of the VOX AC-30TB.

MATCH DRV (MATCH DRIVE)
This models the sound input to left input on a Matchless D/C-30. A simulation of the latest tube amp widely used in styles from blues and rock.

BG LEAD
This models the lead sound of the MESA/ Boogie combo amp. The sound of a tube amp typical of the late ‘70s to ‘80s.

BG DRIVE
This models a MESA/Boogie with TREBLE SHIFT SW on.

MS1959 I
This models the sound input to Input I on a Marshall 1959. This is a trebly sound suited to hard rock.

MS1959 I+II
The sound of connecting inputs I and II of the guitar amp in parallel, creating a sound with a stronger low end than I.

R-FIER VTG (R-FIER VINTAGE)
Models the sound of the Channel 2 VINTAGE Mode on the MESA/Boogie DUAL Rectifier.

R-FIER MDN (R-FIER MODERN)
Models the sound of the Channel 2 MODERN Mode on the MESA/Boogie DUAL Rectifier.

T-AMP LD (T-AMP LEAD)
This models a Hughes & Kettner Triamp AMP3.

SLDN
This models a Soldano SLO-100. This is the typical sound of the eighties.

5150 DRV (5150 DRIVE)
This models the lead channel of a Peavey EVH 5150.

BGNR UB
This is a heavy distortion sound that models the high- gain channel of a Bogner Uberschall.

ORNG ROCK
This models the dirty channel of an ORANGE ROCKERVERB.”
– The sound emulates a “dirty” Orange sound experience. I guess that the emulation is a “general Orange experience”. But it cannot compete with a real amp. / petj

(here the very long quote ends)

My favorite amps

In “real life” I use an Orange Crush 35 RT as my home practise amp. Mostly I like the sound directly from my amp – as in no effect pedals. Here the modelling amps cannot compete.

Among the modelling amps in the Boss GT-1 I prefer the simulated Vox Amps. Add a dash of sustain and some slap back echo. I tend to prefer a 4×12″ cabinet – that is in my headphones.

On rare occations I add the Boss GT-1 to the FX-loop on the Orange 35 RT. Here the simulated amps should be turned off, since the real amp is the Orange. But then you have a plethora of pedals, effects, wahs, flangers, tubescreamers, and …
YouTube Tutorials

February 17, 2021
Tutorials: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Feel free to follow and subscribe to my tutorials on YouTube

WordPress tutorials.

Here are a few of my tutorials on YouTube. Most of the tutorials give you sample code for the prototypes in projects or exercises. The tutorials are available via Github.
- HTML, CSS (MMD 1^st. semester)
- Github (MMD: all classes)
- JavaScript (MMD: 2^nd. semester)
- WordPress / REST API (MMD: 3^rd. semester and above)
Github: Nice Code Review Feature

December 10, 2020

One of the new features on Github is code review. Here you can go in and add comments to specific code lines.