I got a WordPress site's lighthouse score from 45 to 99. Feels good man.

Do you know about Mullenweg's ongoing mental breakdown? The time might have been better spent moving away from WP...

Wordpress...

Isn't it archaic nowadays?

@iiii I'd consider it a supply chain risk. Not for vulnerability, but just Mullenweg (owner of wordpress.org site) has quite literally tried to block companies access to source code, plugins and updates based on demands that verge on extortion. He's also tried to take ownership of paid plugins published through his platform (the "official" WordPress platform) and make them free (courts reversed this). The court case is ongoing. I don't see it ending in Mullenweg's favor but until it's settled and only if he's replaced, to me it's a risk.

You can't polish a turd.

@donkulator Well, this one is pretty shiny.

I don't really care about the politics of the situation. If the current owner disappeared right now, there would be new maintainers by lunch. It's as good as it gets when it comes to what it is.

@donkulator I agree with you. But... that shit has so many users and I have clients who insists on using it. I just make do and collect their money.

@donkulator you can compost it tho

That's pretty impressive, did you replace the whole frontend?

@BordedDev Enabled nginx caching, opcache, gave more resources to PHP from, cleaned up a slow shortcode used multiple times on the home page, started using webp, and added placeholder elements and size attributes to images to keep the page from jumping before js kicks in.

I also changed the init script for nginx as part of some TLC that seems to have helped for some reason.

It took weeks because it's something that has technically worked without issue since I started working here 10 years ago so I haven't put a lot of time into it. But the performance was actually affecting the clients so I had to get it figured out.

@cuddlyogre That's quite a bit of work :D but it's always nice to be allowed to optimise