How Can I Improve The Performance Of My Wordpress Website

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How Can I Improve The Performance Of My WordPress
Website?
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Here are a few things Ive learned over the years
to improve the performance of a WordPress blog
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Unlimited shared hosting is limited
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Shared Hosting Server resources, like number of
processes allowed and memory, are virtually
always limited per account.
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So how do you squeeze a bit more blood from that
shared website hosting turnip?
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Lets start with your wp-config.php file
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wp-config.php file contains your WordPress blog's
settings
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This file governs how your website interacts with
your websites database (where your post content
lives)
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Fatal error Allowed memory exhausted
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Errors like that appear when a plug-in begins
using up all of the memory allocated to your
website
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Solution
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT','128M') define('WP_MAX_M
EMORY_LIMIT','256M')
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Caching is your friend
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Plugins that speed up the page loading speed
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Plugins

• W3 Total Cache
• WP Super Cache
• ZenCache

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Better leveraging browser caching via .htaccess
EXPIRES CACHING ltIfModule
mod_expires.cgt ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType
image/jpg access 1 year ExpiresByType
image/jpeg access 1 year ExpiresByType
image/gif access 1 year ExpiresByType image/png
access 1 year ExpiresByType text/css access 1
month ExpiresByType application/pdf access 1
month ExpiresByType text/xjavascript access 1
month ExpiresByType application/xshockwaveflash
access 1 month ExpiresByType image/xicon
access 1 year ExpiresDefault access 2
days lt/IfModulegt EXPIRES CACHING
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Limiting plugins
More plugins, More complexity, increase the
website loading time
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Look For Well Rated Plugins

• Wordfence Security
• iThemes Security

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Focus on plugins that will help speed up your blog

• WP Smush.it makes images smaller.
• BJ Lazy Load delays the loading of images until
  actually viewed.
• Autoptimize aggregates and minimizes JavaScript,
  CSS and HTML.
• ZenCache caches content saving reloading of
  content each visit.
• Server side Batcache with Memcached to store and
  serve rendered pages.

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php.ini and how to tame it
The php.ini file is simply a file used by the web
server to control specific options within your
account
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The php.ini file lives in your public_html
directory
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Edit the existing setting or add these
lines memory_limit 128M max_execution_time
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The bane of my existence admin-ajax.php
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WordPress introduced the WordPress Heartbeat API
back in version 3.6
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This was developed to help improve session
management, auto saving, revision tracking, etc.
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Site slows to a crawl during periods when
multiple editors are logged into the dashboard
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About That Database
WordPress requires much the same defrag process
as your personal computer to keep fresh and
lively
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What Else May Slow Your Website?

• Post revisions
• Transient records
• Trash may slow your website to a crawl

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WP-Optimize

• Naughty post revisions
• Trackbacks / pingbacks
• Comments in the spam queue
• Expired transient records

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Then add the below line of code to your
wp-config.php settings file
// Limit number of saved revisions to
one define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 2) // Empty
trash every 10 days define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS',
10)
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Summary
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Improve the performance of WordPress by

• Replacing your theme
• Deleting inactive plugins, reducing widget usage
• Disable Allow link notifications from other
  blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)

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