It’s no secret that I LOVE WordPress. I’ve been using the software for 6 years and have no plans to stop any time soon. Last year I attended WordCamp LA with @JasonKeller, it was awesome. I knew that I had to be involved with WordCamp 2010.
When WordCamp 2010 was announced, I signed up as a speaker. My topic, “Improving the performance of WordPress”.
I had a great time preparing and delivering my presentation. A lot of people asked me to post the slides online. I decided to do one better, and post a recorded version of my presentation.
Download the slides in PDF format
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There will also be a live presentation coming soon, as soon as I edit and upload them
Some great easy tools for optimizing performance over the network/in the browser:
Compress any type of image: http://www.smushit.com/
Auto-sprite your images: http://spriteme.org/
Performance tips and load times around the world: http://www.webpagetest.org/
Great tips. Thanks Annie.
Hi Josh – I tweeted this via #wcla, but just for anyone tuning in now, here’s another little tip.
Speed up any Apache-based app that uses .htaccess files by sticking all of those directives straight into your httpd.conf and/or conf.d/* files. Then set AllowOverride to None in httpd.conf. This has the end result of speeding up Apache because it no longer has to go searching through those htdocs directories looking for .htaccess to process *every time* someone makes a page request.
Of course, this is no good to you if you don’t control your Apache install, like on any shared hosting service!
Thanks for the presentation!
@khlaid, thanks for the tip!