Taking over the World at a Snail's Pace
Ad Blockers, a thorn in the side of every online business. Wouldn’t it be great if we could bypass those Ad Blockers and keep our Google Analytics data accurate?
That’s what Steve from Its420somewhere.com thought, when he contacted me with a well-researched feature request for CAOS. A stealth mode to bypass (most) ad blockers. Today I’ll show you the base principles of bypassing Ad Blockers and protecting your Google Analytics data with CAOS.
Recently I added support for gtag.js to CAOS. To be honest I didn’t really think it through. Many people asked for gtag.js support and me being the obedient soldier that I am, I just implemented it. The update was received with (virtual) standing ovations and… panic. Riots in the streets. WORLDWIDE C-H-AOS! (wink wink) Also, questions. Because what’s the difference between ga.js, analytics.js and gtag.js!? Well, let’s find out! Continue reading…
Let’s say your company sells one product. This deserves the spotlight, right? Let’s say you want to give your product a prominent place in the topmenu. Since Magento 2 natively only supports adding categories to its topmenu, you’re up for a challenge! Today I’ll show you how to create a module which allows you to add products to your topmenu.
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately, to implement a ‘Remove Google Fonts’-option into OMGF.
After a lot of research (a few months!) I managed to implement an efficient way to do it. Version 1.9.0 contains an experimental option to remove any Google Fonts that are enqueued in your WordPress blog.
But, for those where it doesn’t work, or for those that want to have full control, I provided an alternative: a complete guide on how to remove Google Fonts from your WordPress Theme.
Preconnect is one of many ways to improve the performance of your WordPress website. I’ve covered many of these in previous posts and created plugins which optimize various aspects of WordPress.
Although I am the (self-proclaimed) king, no, emperor of hosting files locally, even I must admit that many roads lead to Rome. Today I’ll explain to you how something called ‘Preconnect’ can greatly speed up your WordPress blog.