How to Speed Up WordPress Site: 8 Fixes Ranked by Impact
A practical order of work for a slow WordPress site: baseline first, then hosting and caching, images, render-blocking code, plugins, CDN and speculative loading.
6 articles by Tariq Mansouri.
- Gutenberg AI & Block Themes
- Full Site Editing & WordPress Patterns
- WordPress Performance & Accessibility
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WordPress Full Site Editing in 2026: A Field Guide
FSE is the standard for WordPress in 2026. This field guide covers block theme anatomy, Site Editor structure, Query Loop mechanics, and Pattern Overrides, with honest production notes.
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WordPress Performance Optimization: A 2026 Field Audit
WordPress performance optimization in 2026: hitting LCP, INP, and CLS targets. This field audit covers four highest-leverage fixes with measured results from client deployments.
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AI Technical Debt: A WordPress Freelancer Field Guide
AI page builders ship patterns that render perfectly and hide undocumented CSS classes. Here is the audit every WordPress freelancer should run first.
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Cyclomatic Complexity in WordPress Render Callbacks
Cyclomatic complexity in WordPress render callbacks, explained with real PHPMD scores from AI-generated block patterns and a bilingual EN/AR case study.
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Code Refactoring Techniques for WordPress Developers
Practical code refactoring techniques for WordPress developers: extract methods, guard clauses, DRY principles, and FSE pattern cleanup with real production constraints in mind.
