Been doing web design for Clayton’s b4 Food & Wine Bar’s for a couple of years now including fixes, site-migration, writing copy, page speed, SEO and more.
They had parted company with the original web designer who had used a couple of page builders and a template leaving some of the unnecessary / irrelevant original images and videos and even dummy text for the menu items on a live site…!
After doing some basic fixes we migrated the site using all in one wp migration (which ive used effectively on other sites – eschewing the need for better search replace and velvet blues plugins which can be messy and not work)
The site was very slow loading with webnus and visual composer page builders and unrelated old template videos and images still on the site – hidden in sections and behind other images / in layers of Revolution Slider – and non-downsized images.
After installing and setting up WP fastest-cache it went from 28 percent 9 seconds to 70 percent 7.8 seconds:
There were a few more problems- why would google of all ‘people’ (a future AI term) allow HTTP calls for their fonts and not also HTTPS?
after instaling SSL security certificate with Webnus theme rev slider HTTP calls
And the super-silly wordpress emoji helping javascript wp-emoji-release-min.js slowing the page by almost 2 seconds! This can be stopped with WP-fastest cache which has a [disable emojis] check box.
Unfortunately WP Fastest Cache tries to charge you to load google fonts asynchronously so instead use the auto optimize plugin
Being a restaurant b4 food and wine of course had an ordering/ cart feature which was powered by woocommerce but had some delivery bugs:
Delivery fee was being added before the choice given:
Even with [ ] Hide shipping costs until an address is entered checked…?
Removing all items from the cart results in delivery reverting to local pickup!?
Changing geolocate to ‘Australia’ from ‘Australia – Victoria’ fixed this:
Recently they had a user some how assign themselves in WordPress so did a full inspect and clean and installed Wordfece many brute force hack attempts were using ‘david’ as username which it still was (! – the previous web designers name) which was easily discoverable with the old json trick – which I fixed by changing the username and nicename:
There was much more which may appear in info & help tutorials later…
You can visit B4 Food and Wine at 21/195 Wellington Rd in Clayton. Thanks for letting me help you Wes and Alison!