Things change rapidly in the WordPress world. The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.
Thanks to Tyler Smith from MetaCDN for his presentation about ways to speed up your WordPress site even when you’re on shared hosting, and for pointing us to the Ultimate Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site. The elements of this guide are:
- Choose a fast web host
- Choose a fast WordPress theme
- Use post excerpts
- Serve scaled images
- Optimize & compress images
- Use Google Libraries
- Install & configure W3 Total Cache settings
- Use WP-Optimize
- Use fast plugins and comment systems
- Keep WP and plugins up-to-date
- Use a CDN
- Monitor WordPress speed
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