Low hanging performance fruit
For the Rigelian and Travaartje websites I got the cheapest possible hosting (through Strato), and I thought that was the reason that accessing pages was generally slow. When I got a remark about the performance the other day, I decided to take a look at WordPress plugins that might improve on this. The first one I tried was WP Optimize, and much to my surprise, after configuring it for 2 minutes and preloading the cache, loading times on individual pages went from 5-10 seconds to just 1 second. Now that’s what I call low hanging fruit.
Updated layout
An updated layout for iPhone and iPad is nearing completion. A listen now view lets you listen to music in no time: recently played items, recently added albums, favorites (formerly known as presets) or let Rigelian pick an album or batch of songs for you. Furthermore menus now follow the latest iOS 14 style.
iOS 14 style menus
On iOS 13 modern looking context menus were available, now with iOS 14 they can be used for regular menus as well. I started the migration of all the custom menus to this new style as part of a bigger effort to bring Rigelian up-to-date with what iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur have to offer.