Few things to know about WordPress
Caching
Caching: Do you want to store for users? Or Its a problem for you as a developer?
“Have you ever made changes to you website and when you hit that that preview button on your website, the updates you made they don’t show up?”
Sometimes your browser will store your current website, on its memory for ease of access. Have you ever wondered why you access a site/application and it opens quickly perhaps you are always browsing for themes on wpastra.com. Even when you don’t have the strongest connection, the site just opens within few seconds.
You might encounter these a lot when you work with WordPress, and frustratingly you will click that reload button, and you won’t see much difference. You can achieve success by trying accessing your site on a different device or a different browser, and it might also be time to hit the green pad lock, and clear the cookies, try clearing the history as well.
There are log of plugins also that can help you with clearing cache on your website or create a cache. For example there’s a plugin for Progressive Web Applications, it allows you to create a cache.
Now what is a Caching?
In Simple terms, a cache is a storage. Example a server. You request data and a server gives you a request.
How to Optimize Website Speed?
We all want our website to have no flaws, ensure they’re accessible at all times. It has been said humans will spend few seconds on something just determining if something is exciting just like your website you don’t want a sloppy site that will load and bore your clients.
First thing first, you can determining if your site is fast or slow, by using some of the links that will check for you how long a page loads https://www.webpagetest.org/
Such platforms will check things like images, if you need to optimize them reduce sizes.
There are plugins also that you can use to optimize your site and reduce the load. WP Smush.it and also Enabling Cache.
WordPress & Security
WordPress is a free open source CMS. People would debate that its not secure, since its accessible and can be read and be manipulated. However WordPress is secure you will notice when you first install it, it will generate a password for you. Although one of the common mistake many people tend to make is not changing the login URL. Which can allow people to play around on it, do URL Re-directions and all sorts of bad things.
I was at first a victim, a simple website I created was hacked. When I still used, wp-admin. Until I encountered a plugin called ithemes security one of my favorite, with all great features like blocking IP Address addresses and changing the backend link, enabling your SSL. I would recommend users to use it.
Caution
Always change your login url.
Theme Builders
Page builders are know to be the eseential part of WordPress, you have WordPress widely known for it blogging capabilities, but its not only that. Stats proves WordPress as the center of many popular sites.
Page builders can vary from its drag and drop elements to its coding, placing shortcodes. Some can be easy to use, other when you encounter them you will use them for years.
These page builders are built using programming languages and they’re built to be compatible with WordPress standards and are used as modules/plugins. When you install them. They come with their features, some can be free, other to receiver a wide range of features, you need to pay a license for them.
There a lot of ways you can access these page builder,s you can get a theme, that might come with its own page builder. It might become challenging ans you might decide to add one your own like elementor or beaver builder. You can choose to use the default template theme or use a blank template. Some page builders come with their own pre-made templates to choose from and you know you have less work to do, and you can just customize.