WordPress undoubtedly is one of the best and most widely used blogging (or CMS?) platform in the world. Be it the wide support or the great many number of plugins, to the power of customization in ones hand, its so good. But as they say, along with great power comes great responsibility. As people just went on adding plugins, themes et al, the loading times of some blogs have gone through the roof. Here are some wuick tips to speed up your blog.
- Use a limited number of plugins. (recommended is not more that 20)
- Reduce the number of php calls your template makes. Refer this article for some quick changes
- Serve your images from a sub-domain on your server. Refer this article to achieve this step.
- Use a limited number of images in your template.
- Optimize images the right way. Heres a good article from techpavan.
- Use a caching plugin like Hyper Cache, Super Cache or W3 total cache.
- Insert javascripts (like that of statistics) from your footer.php.
- Compress your style-sheet. Use this CSS compressor.
- Use the Closure Compiler to compress your javascripts.
- Enable caching and GZipping from your .htacess. Refer to this article for other .htacess hacks along with the above mentioned ones.
Hmm. Definitely a checklist to be followed. Leaving the 5th point the rest are only one-time hacks. Just do it once and enjoy its benefits forever! Got some more tips? Share them.
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