Since 2011 Cloudflare, even on their free tier, has offered a very promising, very frustrating feature called Rocket Loader. Rocket Loader promises to greatly accelerate the loading of JavaScript, turbocharging JavaScript-heavy sites like those that use WP.
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Rambling thoughts about WordPress
Sliders
Death to Sliders?
Death to WP slider plugins? I find a lot of support for the sentiment among WP experts, for example:
