After a dreaded existence, AMP probably will fade away after June 2021, if I were to predict I'll say it will stick around for a couple of years but its usage will decrease dramatically, and that because Google will not treat AMP preferentially anymore. That's mostly because the new June update of the Google search engine will take into account the performance of every website and since AMP was made in order to create lightweight websites.
I never really hated AMP, though from what I've seen on...
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If you want to load the post faster you can use JS to fetch your post, but on modern browsers probably preloading pages will be faster, the only drawback of preloading is that you'll consume storage for your visitors even if they don't visit the preloaded links, also with preloading links you will consume more bandwidth and resources on the server-side.
So if you want to stick with fetching with JS here is an example, but first, as a note, the example will not use the default REST API mostly be...
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On many websites, you can have content embedded from other sites and one way that most external sites will offer will be to include a script that's hosted on their website.
But if all that script does is including some remote content there are better ways to get that, that will provide customizations and performance.
For example, the website Goodreads offers such an embed JS with a list of the latest books you read, and you must include the script where you want the content to be shown. But t...
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There are a lot of commenting system plugins out there but most of them come with a cost, and sometimes just building a simple WordPress commenting system on top of the native commenting system can be enough.
The main features of this system will be:
- Comments will be only loaded if the user clicks a button
- Comments will be submitted and fetched by JS
- Comments will have paginations fetched by JS
- Comments will have some JS interactivity
- Comments will have the reply feature enabled
- The comment system...
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