In WordPress 5.5, the jQuery Migrate script was removed, and a new version of jQuery was introduced in WordPress 5.6. As a result, many themes and plugins were not prepared or updated, causing issues with websites.

During that time, the jQuery Migrate Helper plugin was installed on many websites to compensate for the missing jQuery Migrate functionality.

Fortunately, we have seen that many themes and plugins have made the necessary adjustments, rendering the temporary solution of the jQuery Migrate Helper plugin unnecessary.

If you have updated your themes and plugins, it is likely that you no longer need the jQuery Migrate Helper plugin and can remove it from your website.

In the years 2015-2020, you could get away with a website that loaded within 5-7 seconds, but now you’re already penalized if your website takes 3-5 seconds to load.

In fact, there are tests indicating that a website with a load time of 2.8 seconds is “not fast enough” for mobile visitors. Users browsing on their smartphones have little to no patience and a short attention span.

Internet speeds have been increasing for years, even for mobile users. We’ve seen the transition from 3G to 4G, and now 5G is being rolled out as of the time of writing.

Secretly, expectations for websites are also rising. If a video can start playing within 1 second, why should a webpage take 5-7 seconds to load?

We have all been spoiled by speed, but we have also become more impatient.

Anyway, this piece of news has gone on for too long. Time to scroll on!

W3 Total Cache is a plugin that helps improve website loading speed. One would expect that nothing can go wrong with it. However, as of mid-2021, there have already been 3 vulnerabilities found in W3 Total Cache.

The plugin had multiple vulnerabilities in 2019, and in 2016, a staggering 8!! vulnerabilities were discovered.

For us, this is a reason to avoid using this plugin on WordPress websites.

In the past, these vulnerabilities allowed hackers to place files on the server, read usernames and hashes, and execute commands on the server.

You simply don’t want to take that risk with a business website, so it’s best to avoid using this plugin or replace it with Autoptimize or WP Rocket.

Autoptimize – created by someone in Belgium – is a free cache plugin that has only had 5 vulnerabilities registered, compared to over 20+ vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache.

If you want to be completely secure, according to WPScan – an authority on security issues – WP Rocket has only had 1 vulnerability (at the time of writing). However, this is a premium plugin that requires annual payment.

Remember that you need to properly configure any of the mentioned plugins to effectively speed up your website.

And no, using two cache plugins doesn’t make your website twice as fast 😉

iThemes has brought back the import and export of settings that disappeared in the major 7.0 update!


This is great news if you have multiple websites that you want to secure. There are quite a few settings to go through, so having the ability to import and export them is very helpful.

And it must be said, they have done a good job with it! You can now specify exactly which settings you want to export. This way, you can choose to include or exclude things like logs or blocked IP addresses.


Poof – gone!

The disappearance of the export function (which is now thankfully back) is a typical iThemes move. In their haste to release a new feature, related functions that don’t cooperate are often temporarily deactivated or (in the past) even commented out in the code.

Either way, it’s great that it was temporary and that it’s now back and functioning well.

I also fell for it and looked it up, when is CSS4 coming?

It turns out that it will never come, CSS3 has mainly become “a thing” because it has been widely discussed as the new revolution in the CSS world.

CSS3 is an adaptation of CSS2, with many individual adjustments. But because they were so successful, many people talked about it as a completely renewed and improved CSS.

Some features of CSS3 were:

1. border-radius – Finally, nice rounded corners without the need for a PNG image
2. gradients – Color gradients without having to create images
3. animations and transitions  – Previously, jQuery had to be used for this
4. transforms – Easy rotation or distortion
5. box-shadow – Add shadows to elements

Because the new CSS adjustments and innovations were significant improvements for certain problems, such as rendering on different devices, and because some cool features were added, CSS3 became a thing in itself.

CSS3 mainly brought financial benefits to programmers and website builders, as they could persuade their clients to “get on board” with the technology.

If in the future there is talk of CSS4 or CSS5, it will mainly be a term used by programmers who might give the new updates a distinct name.

Don’t expect it to be released officially!

Source: [CSS-Tricks.com](https://css-tricks.com/css4/)