Optimizing WordPress – Tips for Speed
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WordPress is crap, but it is the best crap we can get. When your website, with WordPress sitting in the back, starts to pick up traffic, it will slow down and become unresponsive. Adding hardware will help, but correctly implemented load balancing and load distribution across more than one computer can be tricky and expensive. Trying to optimize WordPress and the web server itself usually gives better short-term results. In the long run even this won’t help and it will just postpone the inevitable, you will have to cluster in one way or another. I am not going to talk about clustering and load balancing today, I will focus on optimizing your WordPress. Newbie friendly, yet hardcore, meaning that I will provide explanation for all the complicated stuff.
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