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Co-Founder of WP Captain, I'm a senior WordPress developer and solutions architect. I lead all WordPress development efforts and provide advanced customer support to our users.

Posts by Dave Lavoie

  • Testing your WordPress website performance with GTmetrix

    Previously in this series, we’ve reviewed the Google PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom Website Speed Test services, and we’ve shared with you a few tips to keep in mind before starting to optimize your website speed. Today, we’ll take a look at GTmetrix performance analysis tool, which is another excellent service for analyzing your website performance.

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    Dave Lavoie November 30, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
  • How to disable RSS feeds completely in WordPress?

    You want to disable RSS feeds completely in WordPress, but you don’t know how? Here are 3 ways to do it.

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    Dave Lavoie November 22, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
  • Analyzing your WordPress site with Pingdom Website Speed Test tools

    In the previous posts of this series, we’ve shared with you some tips you should keep in mind before starting to test your website speed with various tools, and we’ve reviewed the Google PageSpeed Insights service. Today, we’ll focus on the Website Speed Test tools powered by Pingdom.

    PerformancePingdomspeed

    Dave Lavoie November 2, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
  • A Cloud9 plugin for applying WordPress Coding Standards using PHP CodeSniffer

    The WP Captain team loves Cloud9 IDE and is using it for anything related to WordPress development. In this post, we’ll share with you a Cloud9 plugin we’ve developed that you can use to enable an analyzer in the editor that will show you which part of your code doesn’t comply with WordPress Coding Standards.

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    Dave Lavoie October 19, 2018 • WordPress Development
  • WordPress 5.0 to be released on November 27, 2018: are you ready for Gutenberg?

    It’s now (almost) official! After many delays, if everything goes according to the plan, WordPress 5.0 should be released on November 27, 2018.

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    Dave Lavoie October 10, 2018 • WordPress Updates
  • Optimizing your WordPress site with Google PageSpeed Insights

    In the previous post of this series, I’ve shared some tips that you should keep in mind before testing the speed of your website. So if you haven’t seen it yet, you might want to read it first before reading this review of Google PageSpeed Insights.

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    Dave Lavoie October 9, 2018 • WordPress Tips & Tricks
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