Info: How To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 12:01 am as Information

Vladimir Prelovac has published “WordPress Optimization Guide” which is is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, â€œMySQL server has gone awayâ€ message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase in traffic (for example Digg front page) this is the guide for you. The followings are the main points of the article.

1. Check the Connection
2. Check your (Vista) System
3. Check the Plugins
4. Check your Theme
5. Optimize Database Tables
6. Turn off Post Revisions
7. Implement Caching (WordPress Cache, MySQL Optimization, PHP Opcode Cache)
8. â€œMySQL server has gone awayâ€ workaround
9. Fixing posting not possible problem
10. Other reasons for slow posting

Source: WordPress Optimization Guide

Readers Comments

Cory

November 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am

I just made a single change to my blog to speed up the posting process exponentially. I’ve been running the Multi URI Plugin to ping a number of URI’s when I published a post. Well, it turns out that at least one of those URI’s was timing out. This either slowed down the publishing greatly or aborted altogether. I simply removed the offending URI, and I’m back in business.

David Risley

November 18th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

The caching tip is the most bang for the proverbial blog. One of my blogs was literally KILLING my server, and a feature on the Digg homepage made it official. Installing the WP-Cache saved the site and its cut down server load considerably.