What are You Doing to Optimize WordPress?

07 Mar
2008

Posted by David Peralty as WordPress Tips

As I continue to use WordPress as a publishing platform, I find myself wondering if there are better workflow systems when writing content on WordPress, or ways to make WordPress run faster in the eyes of my readers.

I know a little about caching, and various different administration themes, and things like Windows Live Writer, but what other things do you do to optimize your interactions with WordPress? Any fancy plugins? Any fancy software? Let me know in the comments below.

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7 Responses

maze

March 7th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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“make WordPress run faster in the eyes of my readers”:

I find that a light weight theme makes a difference. Not in terms of loading time but in terms of delivering the reader the information he wants in the clearest way possible. (Then again, light weight is a relative notion. To me, it means: little colour, not many images, not much text except for the content the reader is looking for.)

“better workflow systems when writing content”:

I like Andy Staines’ Advanced Admin Menus Plugin by which lets me reach every admin page with one page load only.
redwall_hp

March 8th, 2008 at 5:41 am
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I run the fantastic WP Super Cache plugin. It caches pages as static html files, and really helps loading times.
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March 9th, 2008 at 4:40 am
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Jeffro2pt0

March 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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I use WP-Cache for caching. As for interacting with WordPress itself, I write the content from within the Write Panel while using FireFTP within FireFox to handle all of my image uploads and linking. I don’t do very much to optimize with the exception of only using third party services/sites that I can trust will not slow my site down.
iso belgesi

March 16th, 2008 at 2:48 am
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thanks wordpress
prefabrik

March 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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thanks
Stephen R

March 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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One thing I keep hearing is that you can speed things up by stripping extraneous PHP calls out of your theme.

Do you really need a PHP call to insert the name of your blog into the Title of the page? It makes sense from the perspective of distributing the theme to who-knows-who, but you can go in there and replace a lot of that stuff with hard text. Remove 10 or 15 calls to PHP functions and you should see a speed increase (or so i’m told. Haven’t done it myself for reasons specific to my site….)