There are a few speed tweaks and tips I have come across that I use for my WordPress blog, some or all of which you might find useful. After I applied these tricks, my blog does seem to load significantly faster than before I applied these tweaks.
Note: You might want to backup any files you change, if any, while installing plugins and/or altering files.
Easy Tips and Tricks to Speed up WordPress Blogs
1. Use this free plugin tool for FireFox called Yslow to get an overall idea of what might be slowing down your site in the first place.
2. This might be obvious to most people, but WordPress has a plugin that’s fairly easy to install and setup called WP Super Cache that will take a little bit of the load off of your database. It will serve up cached pages of your blog as opposed to constantly making requests to your WordPress database. Just pay close attention to your folder permissions if you install this plugin, since you’ll have to CHMOD your wp-content folder to 777 when you install it. You’ll want to CHMOD it back to 755 once you’ve installed it, and you’ll need to follow the same procedure anytime you may want to clear the cached files. For instance, if your working on the layout of your blog and you have the cache plugin enabled, you wont see the changes you made until you clear the cache.
3. Try adding this line of code to the very begining of your index.php file that’s in the main directory of your wordpress installation :
After you have added that line of code, your index.php file should look similar to this:
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
For more information on what this line of code does, see : GZIP using PHP
When I get a chance, in the next few days I’ll post a couple of Advanced Tips for speeding up your blog that I’ve come across and currently use, that you may want to consider using too. Don’t worry about it being “Advanced”, you can always find someone on rentacoder.com or elance.com if your not comfortable compiling and installing mods, packages and modifying PHP.ini files, etc. I’m currently testing one other method, so when I’m done I’ll write all that up including resource links with more info.
After that, I’ve gotta bury my head in the sand again so I can get my other site finished. Also, I’m probably not going to be talking to much more “tech stuff” after my “Advanced Tips” post… simply because I would like to focus my discussions more on Social Networking, Social Media and Web 2.0 marketing info.
You site is awesome , also thanks for the post on tips & tricks for wordpress blogs
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