Optimizing wordpress.

[computerwis]

Hi,
I got a little tutorial about how to make workpress much better and faster. Here are the plugins to make it better. Only basic. It can save you alot of high server load and Ram.

WP SuperCache - Most important to consider
This plugin will create a static file of your blog after you have generated content and serve this to your visitors. This helps by reducing usage of PHP and MySQL resources since they do not have to generate a new page every time someone visits. Your users will still be able to use your site as normal because any pages that require dynamic generation will be handled by the regular PHP and MySQL functions. It just helps out because the static pages are much easier on the server to handle and the large majority of your users will view your site this way so it'll be faster for them.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is a nice tool because it will remove the revision edit history from your database making it smaller and neater. If you didn't know, each time you make a revision WordPress saves a copy of each edit. Over time this can add up to quite a lot of database storage. This plugin can also optimize your databases and remove any overhead in your other tables.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize/

WP-DBManager
This is similar to WP-Optimize, but it doesn't clean out the revision history. This tool, however, adds in the feature to make a backup on your database and restore your database from the backups. It will also allow you to schedule database optimizations so that you don't have to worry about it.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/

Other Tips

* Check your plugins - some plugins aren't coded efficiently and can cause a heavy load on the server.
* Check your theme - like plugins, some themes cram a lot of material in that isn't needed and can slow things down.
* Offload/Optimize Images - using a free image host or even optimizing images you have on your site with WP-Smush.it can help out a lot.

Hope you like it.

[JayCub]

Thanks for sharing the tutorial pctools much appreciated,

[narender]

thnx.... luks helpful.........

[Alboguy]

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