In the first part we explained some tricks to make your WordPress faster, but sometimes this is not even enough….we need more speed!
Before I explain more tricks I will like to make a note; I don’t recommend you to change anything from the core of WP. We could make WP much faster by just tweaking a bit the core…but I don’t recommend to you if later you need to upgrade you WP you will lose all that changes!
Then I’m going to focus in tweaking the Theme and usage of some plugins.
- Use less plugins, and remove the tables they are created and no longer are needed
- Get rid off the widget bar and make it static! This will reduce lot of calls to the DB.
- Try to make it everything as static as possible š
- Use a CDN, less stress for your server, since willĀ receiveĀ less requests. You can use Coral CDN (a bit slow) or Amazon for example.
- Try to use only one CSS and one JS, with w3 total cache this is kind of easy to do.
- Be careful with missing files, if the file doesn’t exist a 404 page returns and needs to be executed :S you can check this here tools.pingdom.com (great tool)
- Erase the comments and use Disqus (export them first, you can use the plugin), this is extremely tweaking, but can be a last solution, I’m not at this point yet but….maybe.
- W3 Total Cache is probably the best cache plugin now a days, give it a try!
And I think that’s all….