PHP Developer, Specialized in Technical SEO, Site Speed and Accessibility.

As a web developer with over 17 years of experience, I have had the opportunity to work extensively in the field of technical SEO and accessibility.

I take great pride in my ability to optimize websites for better speed, discovery and usability, making sure that they are accessible to both humans and machines.

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He has a curious mind and is a consummate troubleshooter which are key parts of the makeup for the modern web developer.
I wholeheartedly recommend Rob Went and wish him luck on his next endeavour.

Anthony Olsen joomlabamboo.com

Latest Blog Posts:

Integrating AbuseIPDB With the Nginx Ultimate Bad Bot Blocker Script

The Nginx Bad Bot Blocker script is fantastic and a no-brainer to install on any Nginx server hosting publicly accessible websites.

As great as it is though, I’ve recently noticed a significant increase in the number of attacks on the servers which I administer and websites in general. So I looked into into integrating the paid API from AbuseIPDB.

This is how I got it to work.

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Elementor 3.18 Breaks Plugins Sending JSON Ajax Responses

If you find certain areas of your site not working after updating to Elementor 3.18, take this step to fix them.

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Clear W3 Total Cache by URL From the Admin Bar or Dashboard

When recently working on a WordPress website that generated pages from an API that aren’t stored in the main site database, I discovered that the W3 Total Cache admin bar link to clear the current page’s cache didn’t work.

The ‘Purge Current Page’ link in the Performance menu item works by passing the current post ID to a function that clears the cache by an ID. Since this only works for single posts, it also doesn’t work on post archives and term listing pages.

So I wrote a small plugin to clear the current page’s cache by its URL.

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