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10 Fastest WordPress Themes in 2025 (+ Instant-Speed Tools)
Ever clicked away from your own site because it barely loaded? A mere one-second delay can reduce 7% of conversions, sending potential customers to competitors. Google now includes Core Web Vitals into its core ranking systems, so slow pages will keep sliding down the SERP. If you’ve decided to build a website on WordPress, your first concern should be its…

Google Page Experience Update: The New Google Ranking Factor
The anticipated (or dreaded) roll out of Google’s latest page experience update has already come and gone. Did it do wonders for your traffic…or were your worst fears realized? Or, perhaps you are just remembering about this change now, while reading this post? Fear not, as now that all the commotion has calmed and the dust has settled, we’re going…
What’s New: Speed Optimizer & Dashboard
Speed Optimizer We have put a lot of effort into improving your site speed and reaching a 90+ PageSpeed score when hosting on 10Web and after migration of your websites. Responsive images In the general settings of the speed optimizer plugin, we have added the option to enable responsive images. This option adds the srcset attribute to your images and…
What’s New: User & Team Management & White Labeling of 10Web Builder
Teamwork and collaboration are key components of seeing through a project to its completion. Even one man shows need to collaborate, at the least with the stage crew. Delegating work in a secure way and in a secure environment in the day of cyber everything, is quite the task of agencies and online businesses. As a collaborative platform, security, transparency,…
How to Get More Clients: 13 Strategies for Agencies and Freelancers
Back when I was trying to grow my own brand, one question wouldn’t leave me alone: how to get more clients? That question shows up early when you’re freelancing, and it sticks around even when you start building an agency. I experimented a lot: sent hundreds of cold emails (each with a different engagement method), nervously networked at conferences, tried…
7 Best cPanel Alternatives [2022 Edition]
Chances are, if you’ve ever paid for a web hosting plan, you are familiar with cPanel. Its time-tested, web-based interface makes it easy to install WordPress, set up email accounts, work with databases, configure DNS, and helps tackle many other everyday tasks for web admins. You may have encountered cPanel – or one of its alternatives – when you first…
Largest Contentful Paint: How to Improve Your Score Forever
So you’ve worked hard on building a fast, clean website, and now that you’ve run it through a page speed tool, it’s disappointing that the results are not what you hoped for. While hanging your head in defeat may seem like a tempting option, from an SEO and user experience standpoint, you should definitely reconsider before throwing in the towel….
What’s New: Full WP White Label, Backup Services, & AI Builder v2.11
As more and more businesses go online, business owners and consumers alike demand the best quality in the functionality and performance of websites, which guarantees a great user experience. Establishing trust between your business and your customers is hard work. Here is what we have done in this period to bring you closer to gaining that trust. Hosting We’ve talked…
Core Web Vitals: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need
At this point, you’ve most likely heard about Core Web Vitals, Google’s new page experience measuring tools. Announced in May 2020 and incorporated into the ranking algorithms just last month, Core Web Vitals are another key way for Google to approximate the quality of user experience that a website offers. As the focus of Core Web Vitals is on an…
What’s New: 10Web Speed Optimizer, AI Builder v 2.9, Image Optimizer, & 10Web Builder
10Web Speed Optimizer Continuous improvements to our speed optimizer are always in the works. This month we had major work done on the plugin in order to improve it’s optimization capabilities. With a special team intensively concentrated specifically on the plugin, here are some of the highlights. Added Web Worker We have added a Javascript Web Worker that downloads async…
How to Create a Custom WordPress Theme Without a Line of Code
When I first started exploring custom WordPress theme development, I kept hearing that creating a custom theme was the “next level.” However, every guide I found jumped straight into PHP, functions, or Git workflows. I didn’t want to become a developer. I just wanted more control than what premade themes or plugins offered. So I started looking into no-code theme…
WordPress Default Theme: What It Is and How to Change It
Every year, WordPress releases a new default theme that ships with every new WordPress installation. These themes typically show new features added to the platform—like full site editing or improved accessibility. However, the WordPress default theme is often missing features that small business websites rely on. That’s why many WordPress users choose to switch to a different theme. If you’re…