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WordPress plugins: A re-evaluation

WordPress plugins: A re-evaluation

With the advent of Google’s March update and chargeable stats for Jetpack, how can you re-optimise your WordPress plugins? Google’s March update was a kick in the teeth for many bloggers, and to add insult to injury, along came a chargeable model for Jetpack stats. My initial reaction was to bin Jetpack altogether, it’s bloatware

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Did Jetpack just ruin WordPress?

After 9 years as a WordPress and Jetpack user. Jetpack has now started to charge for stats. Bye, Jetpack! You read it right. It’s no longer free to view your website stats if your site is deemed ‘commercial’ (ie. running Google Adsense). It’s a tiered system starting at something £6.95 per month for 10k views

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New ColorMag Theme!

I’ve now switched to a new ColorMag theme as the old Dyad theme wasn’t really working anymore, for a number of reasons… Dyad is mostly geared towards image-heavy sites (which mine isn’t), so having all that page real-estate taken up by my amateur efforts seems a waste. I was after a sidebar widget to make my

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