How Can I Improve The Performance Of My Wordpress Website?

1. How Can I Improve The Performance Of My • WordPress Website? • HackGuard.com

2. Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years to improve the performance of a WordPress blog:

4. 1 • Unlimited shared hosting • is “limited”

5. Shared Hosting • Server resources, like number of processes allowed and memory, are virtually always limited per account.

6. So how do you squeeze a bit more blood from that shared website hosting turnip?

7. Let’s start with your • wp-config.php file

8. wp-config.php file contains your WordPress blog's settings

9. This file governs how your website interacts with your website’s database (where your post content lives)

10. “Fatal error: Allowed memory exhausted”

11. Errors like that appear when a plug-in begins using up all of the memory allocated to your website

12. Solution • define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT','128M'); • define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT','256M');

13. 2 • Caching is your friend

14. Plugins that speed up the page loading speed

15. Plugin’s • W3 Total Cache • WP Super Cache • ZenCache

16. Better leveraging browser caching via .htaccess • ## EXPIRES CACHING ## • <IfModule mod_expires.c> • 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/x–javascript “access 1 month“ • ExpiresByType application/x–shockwave–flash “access 1 month“ • ExpiresByType image/x–icon “access 1 year“ • ExpiresDefault “access 2 days“ • </IfModule> • ## EXPIRES CACHING ##

17. Limiting plugins • More plugins, • More complexity, • increase the website loading time

18. Look For Well Rated Plugins • Wordfence Security • iThemes Security

19. 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.

20. 3 • 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

21. The php.ini file lives in your public_html directory

22. Edit the existing setting or add these lines:* • memory_limit = 128M • max_execution_time = 60

23. 4 • The bane of my existence: • admin-ajax.php

24. WordPress introduced the WordPress Heartbeat API back in version 3.6

25. This was developed to help improve session management, auto saving, revision tracking, etc.

26. Site slows to a crawl during periods when multiple editors are logged into the dashboard

27. 5 • About That Database • WordPress requires much the same “defrag” process as your personal computer to keep fresh and lively

28. What Else May Slow Your Website? • Post revisions • Transient records • Trash may slow your website to a crawl

29. WP-Optimize • Naughty post revisions • Trackbacks / pingbacks • Comments in the spam queue • Expired transient records

30. 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);

31. Summary

32. 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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