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title: About
date: 2024-09-12T12:12:44+00:00
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# About

WP Elevator provides online courses for WordPress developers who want to understand WordPress deeply. Whether you’re an individual, freelancer, or part of an agency, WP Elevator empowers you with the skills and knowledge to grow, excel, and elevate your WordPress expertise.

## Author

WP Elevator is created by [Kaspars Dambis](https://kaspars.net) with more than a decade of experience leading enterprise WordPress solution development at agencies. I’ve been part of the WordPress community since 2007 when I started sharing free themes and plugins, and contributing to the core project.

![Kaspars Dambis](https://wpelevator.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2024/09/kaspars-dambis-square-small-jpg.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=2000,2000)Kaspars DambisPlease [reach out](https://wpelevator.com/contact) any time!

## Colophon[1](#82db46fe-519b-44d1-b6fd-d75d0cb96e5d)

This site runs on a custom $5 DigitalOcean virtual server with Nginx and PHP 7.4 with custom [`fastcgi_cache` configuration](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html#fastcgi_cache) that serves stale cache during content updates and errors for a snappy user experience.

It uses the [Twenty Twenty-Four theme](https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyfour/) and the following plugins:

- [Minit](https://github.com/kasparsd/minit) for concatenating all styles and scripts into single bundle.
- [Cache Version](https://github.com/kasparsd/cache-version) for [If-Modified-Since](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/If-Modified-Since) HTTP request support.
- [Disable Emojies](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emojis/) to disable the [emoji polyfill from WordPress core](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/a78540b0881a195ec8488bb6bdf878114d75f8b8/src/wp-includes/default-filters.php#L350).
- [Replace Images](https://wordpress.org/plugins/replace-image/) to replace existing images with a new upload.
- [Icons Block](https://wordpress.org/plugins/icon-block/) for native WP SVG icons in the block editor.

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Footnotes:

1. [A term used in publishing for a section about the production of the publication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(publishing)) [↩︎](#82db46fe-519b-44d1-b6fd-d75d0cb96e5d-link)