Speeding up the load time of your website can reduce your bounce rate (percentage of visitors who enter the site and leave without viewing any other pages) and make you more favorable for search engines. People judge websites quickly and the longer they have to wait, the more likely they are to bounce. One quick way to boost the speed of your site is to set the expires headers.
Finding the parent and child pages for any given page can be useful for many reasons. One use case is creating a sidebar navigation for a section of pages in a website. Finding the children of a current page is fairly easy using wp_list_pages(). But, there is not builtin WordPress function to get the parent and children of any given page.
Last week I built a mini site for a book launch where the entire experience is on one page of tabs. The special offers tab required collecting a bit of user information which requires a form. I didn’t want the form cluttering the special offers tab up and leaving the main view for the form felt gross. This is a perfect opportunity to place a form in a popover or lightbox.
For this post I am going to switch gears a little bit and offer a simple Photoshop tutorial for a task that is less than evident. Some tasks in Photoshop are not hard to do, but you do have to know how to do them. This one falls into that category.