WordPress blogs have always been under the scanner for being to slow. By using some useful hacks and applying some effective tweaks and plugins it’s possible to speed up your wordpress blog.
Here are some steps outlined to speed up your wordpress blog
- Keep checking for WordPress updates: It is very critical to stay updated with the latest wordpress version. WordPress updates usually come up with a lot of performance enhancements, which could increase the load time efficiency of your blog.
- Remove or disable unused plugins: Plugins are one of the most important reasons which cause the wordpress blogs to slow down. Plugins do contain heavy scripts and codes which take a lot of operating time, so it is advisable to disable and maybe even remove it if the plugin is not needed.
- Optimize your code: As it’s the code which runs in the background, optimizing it can do wonders for you blog.
Some common tips to optimize your code are
- Decrease use of white spaces
- Use external scripts in your header.php files.
- Use CSS shorthand convention
You can also use software’s like xDebug which can automatically optimize your PHP code
- Optimize your database: If traffic to your wordpress blog or website is high then your website database would have get a lot of transactions per day, this could clog or disrupt your database. Therefore it’s recommended to use your myPhpAdmin or any other mySQL tool to optimize your database on a regular basis.
- Install a cache plugin: Having caching system can really speed up your blog. WP-Cache 2 and WP–Super Cache is the most efficient caching systems. These caching systems cache wordpress blog pages and store them in form of HTML files or static files, this helps in serving future requests directly from the file without invoking and compiling the whole PHP code.