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20 Tips and Tricks to Speed-Up Your Wordpress Blog
The Wordpress content management system (CMS) is by default a pretty fast and optimized software. However by using lots of plugins and “design heavy” themes can really slow it down. This affects directly your visitors because nobody likes a slow loading website.
There are a number of things you can do to speed up your Wordpress blog, and quite a lot of methods will be discussed in this article.
Lets assume that you have created a killer article and you know that it will bring tons of traffic once you digg or stumble it. Now tons of users are on your blog and your blog serving them content using the dynamic PHP scripts files, this will put tremendous load on your sever and even you can face CPU outage. This is more likely to happen when you have a self-hosted blog.
If you can make static mirror pages of your blog posts, it will save you and your server. WP-Super-Cache plugin does exactly that and we will discuss in great deal in this tutorial. You should also consider following steps to reduce page load time
- Use fewer images.
- Optimize images before uploading. You can either use Photoshop to optimize JPEG files or use a JPEG compression utility like Advanced JPEG Compressor 2008. Create an action in Photoshop so that you don’t have to do repetitive tasks.
- Use minimum third party java script code; they really slow down the page load.
- Stay up to date with the latest WP releases. Every new wordpress release comes with lots of performance enhancements. Also don’t forget to update the maintenance release that follows every main release.
- Disable or preferably delete unused plugins. Every plugin executes quite a few scripts and SQL queries that might slow down your blog. Deleting unused plugins will save you some space.
- Stay up to date with Plugins, whenever a new WP version is released, plugin authors enhance plugins for performance and other enhancements. If you publish your posts from desktop visit your dashboard often to check weather a new version of plugins is available. WP 2.6 now gives you a visual indication about the plugins that need your attention. It shows a red blurb with a number inside it, that number defines how many plugins need your attention.
- If you have added a new feature to your WP blog by writing some PHP code that executes SQL queries; make sure that you minimize the load on the server.
- Place javascript code in an external .js file instead of dumping all the code in head section. Compress javscript code. A good resource for that is : http://javascriptcompressor.com/
- Put external javascript files below the head tag.
- Remove duplicate scripts.
- Compress all CSS files.
- Do not put CSS documents outside HEAD tag.
- Check Firefox Error Console and eliminate errors from your code, if any.
- Check website load time using a cool utility called Pingdom.
- Reduce whitespaces in your CSS files and use shorthand CSS. It will increase the speed time. Whitespaces are great and every coder uses them extensively for better reading. The solution to this problem is that you make a copy of code on you local machine, kill all the whitespaces and upload the optimized the file to server. That way you will have a mirror of the code that you can read and modify easily later. Use Pingdom to check wheather it makes any difference or not.
- Optimize database using phpMyAdmin.
- Use Firebug Firefox addon to quickly find errors on your page. Apart from this you can do tons of thing with firebug including monitoring network utility.
- Install YSlow Firefox addon. YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites.
- Reduce DNS lookup, try to reduce number of domains to 4.
- And now the most important step, enable cache option. Use a very nice plugin called WP Super Cache, it is an advanced version of WP-Cache however you can choose which mode to turn on when you activate the plugin i.e. WP-Cache or WP-Super-Cache.
WP-Super-Cache plugin is a very fast cashing engine for wordpress. It generates static HTML files from dynamic blog posts. Once this plugin generates a static html file, that file will be executed in your browser instead of the wordpress PHP scripts that are much heavier and take far more time to load.
We are looking for contributors
The blog has grown constantly over the last year, and the need for giving our readers more quality articles has also grown. Unfortunately writing quality articles takes time, a lot of time. So, as the title is mentioning, we are looking for guest authors for the blog.
What we are looking for
We are looking for talented bloggers, that want to promote themselves and their websites. An perfect candidate must be able to write an interesting and original article (at least 400 words) regarding these topics :
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Flash
- Photoshop
- Vectorial Graphics
- Design Inspiration
- Programming
- Print Design
- Design Resources
- Photography
- Freelancing
- Top 10 articles
- Web Development Tutorials
- Design Software
- IT News
What will you get
Our number of readers and visitors increases every month, so you’ll be getting recognition, exposure and free advertising for your website. Each article will have an “About the author” box (such as the one below) containing your name, your website and a short description of your website. Apart from that you’ll get a permanent spot (name and website URL) on our contributors page.
Guidelines and article submission
You can see the guidelines and submit articles via our Contributors Page.
Notepad Chaos - Free Wordpress Theme
Details : 2 columns, sidebar ready, handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins, “thumbnail” custom field for post image preview.
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10 Must-Have Plugins If You’re a Wordpress Blogger
Every Wordpress blogger knows how important plugins are for its blog. Getting the right combination of plugins is pretty difficult and involves a lot of trial and error and, of course time. Here are 10 plugins, that in our opinion any Wordpress blog should have.
Akismet, the first barrier against spam, attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. It comes already installed with every Wordpress blog. Check it
A great anti-spam plugin with a big plus : works with Akismet. Check it
Every blog needs a social bookmarking plugin, and ShareThis makes it easy with a fully customizable button. Check it
One of the best automatic search engine optimization plugins available for Wordpress. Check it
cforms II is a highly customizable, anti-spam contact form deployable in any part of your blog. Check it
