21 Ways to Make WordPress

21 Ways to Make WordPress Fast

Who am I?Jason McCrearyhttp://jason.pureconcepts.netjason@pureconcepts.net@gonedark• Web and iOS Application Developer• Louisville, KY• Web Developer since 1999• PHP since version 3• Active StackOverﬂow member• Push WordPress as Development Platform• Founder of LouPUG

“I hate slow sites. I hate them. I hate slowsites even more than I like fast sites. Andthere’s a difference…”

Yes, WordPress is slow.

But you can make WordPress fast!

But ﬁrst, weight…

#1 Valid Code

#2 Permalink Settings

#3 Use Less Plugins

#4 Reading Settings

#5 Move CSS to the top,JavaScript to the bottom

#6 Use CSS Image Sprites

.nav-logo-large #nav-logo { background-image: url(https://cdn.amazon.com/images/BeaconSprite-US-01.png); background-position: -119px -9px; height: 35px; width: 111px;}

#7 Compression

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript

#8 Miniﬁcation

#9 Content Delivery Networks

#10 Multiple/Static Domains

#11 Sharing Widgets

#12 Comments and Gravatar

#13 Resource Caching

Header unset ETagFileETag NoneExpiresActive OnExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 6 months"ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 6 months"ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 6 months"ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 6 months"ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 6 months"

#14 WordPress Caching

#15 PHP Caching

#16 Database Caching

#17 Database Optimizations

#18 Extra Data

#19 Redirects

#20 Apache Optimizations

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]

FallbackResource /index.php

#21 Hosting

Tools and Resources• Firebug with YSlow!• siege and ab• www.wpspeedometer.com• Yahoo! Performance Rules• Google PageSpeed• High Performance Web Sites / Even Faster Web Sites

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21 Ways to Make WordPress

by Jason McCreary on Aug 25, 2012

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