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How (and why you should) Include jQuery from Google CDN in WordPress

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How (and why you should) Include jQuery from Google CDN in Wordpress

Including jQuery from Google’s CDN has some advantages. Here are a few:

  • Caching Perhaps the greatest benefit of including google hosted jQuery is that there is a good chance your visitors may not even need to download jQuery. They might have visited some other website using Google hosted jQuery and already have it downloaded and cached by their browsers.

  • Less Latency Google have jQuery distributed across geographically dispersed servers. When a browser resolves the URL for the jQuery file it will automatically get downloaded from the closest available server.

  • Maximized Parallel Downloads By not having jQuery on your own domain it can be downloaded in parallel with other stuff. You can read more on parallel downloads here: Maximizing Parallel Downloads

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Internal Link Shortcode to Prevent Broken Internal Links

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Internal Link Shortcode to Prevent Broken Internal Links

To prevent broken internal links in case you change the permalink structure in WordPress, a simple internal link shortcode can be used. Normally it’s best to avoid changing the permalink structure, but if you really have to, internal links in posts or pages would point to non-existent pages.

If instead a shortcode is used each time you link to an internal page or post, a future change of permalink structure would mean that you wouldn’t have to manually change the link URL of each internal link.

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