pramod

Pramod

Pramod is the founder of wptls. He has been using WordPress for more than nine years. He builds web applications, and writes about his experiences with various WP products on this site.
Google Page Experience report LCP issue

Fixing LCP issue: Longer than 4s or 2.5s in WordPress

The latest edition of the Google Pagespeed Insights tool measures three important metrics of a website- LCP, CLS, and FCP. LCP stands for largest contentful paint. CLS and FCP stand for Cumulative Layout Shift and First Contentful Paint, respectively. LCP…

Elementor

Astra vs Elementor

Astra is the most popular free WordPress theme. It has been built by Brainstorm Force. According to the WordPress repository, it is used on over a million sites. Elementor is the top page builder WP plugin. It has millions of…

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Hostgator vs A2 Hosting

A2 was incorporated in 2003 and is a popular alternative to other leading shared hosting service providers. Hostgator was founded in 2002 and is one of the top 3 shared hosting companies in the world right now. Are shared server…

WordPress menu not working? Here’s the solution

When the WordPress menus are not working, people or search bots may not be able to explore the category or tag pages of your website. This problem may not sound serious, but it hurts the user experience. How to fix…

iThemes Security

5 Best Wordfence alternative plugins

Wordfence is one of the most downloaded security plugins. It can protect a website from various types of attacks and also find and replace malware-infected WordPress core files. If for some reason, you don’t want to use this security extension,…

Google ReCaptcha

How to reduce WordPress spam emails?

WordPress has a great feature called blacklist for comments. When you add keywords to the blacklist, it automatically sends comments that contain the blacklisted word to the trash or spam folder. The comments won’t appear in the comments section, but…

Wordfence scanner

Jetpack vs Wordfence: Features and plans comparison

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin built by Automattic Inc that tries to protect a site and improve its performance. Wordfence is an extension created for only one purpose, to protect a WordPress site. Are Jetpack security features better than Wordfence?…

PHP INI Sendmail

How to fix WordPress not sending email issue?

WordPress not sending email issue must be fixed immediately. If you don’t do so, you will not be able to use the “forgot password” feature of WP. Sometimes, you may forget the password of the WP admin. There are two…