Optimizing WordPress on Shared Hosting Environments

In this presentation, we see how we can make improvements so that WordPress can run faster in a shared hosting environment with the help of several plugins, online tools, and helper applications.

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1. Suzette Franck @mt_Suzette WordPress Evangelist Lead Media Temple Optimizing WordPress on Shared Hosting Environments March 6, 2013 Ventura County WordPress Interest Group
2. Who I Am • Suzette Franck WordPress Evangelist Lead at Media Temple • Twitter: @mt_Suzette • Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/ suzettefranck
3. Faster Website??? Why? • Google Analytics / SEO • Better User Experience • Improve Mobile Loading • Lower Abandonment Rates
4. Website Performance Tuning 80% Front-end 20% Back-end
5. Where To Start?
6. Monitoring Page Speed (Net Tab)
7. FireBug’s Net Tab runs on
8. Troubleshoot Theme Slowness
9. Troubleshoot Plugin Slowness P3 is a Free Plugin Located in WordPress Repository
10. Avoid Plugin(s) Alternative(s) Broken Link Checker www.brokenlinkcheck.com Yet Another Related Posts Plugin nrelate Plugin Newsletter Management Plugins Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Aweber Caching Plugins (Depending on hosting could be redundant) Plugins To Avoid
11. WordPress Tweaks Settings > Discussion wp-config.php
12. WordPress Discussion Settings Change default Gravatar to blank Turn off pingbacks, trackbacks & blog notifications
13. Use External Commenting Systems
14. wp-config.php edits
15. Optimize & Combine Images spritecow.com smushit.com
16. Using Sprite Cow Generates the CSS from image coordinates
17. Database Optimization Optimize Database Tables
18. Content Delivery Networks (images only) Amazon CloudFront
19. 4 Steps to Optimization 1. Baseline Your Performance 2. Troubleshoot Slowness 3. Make Modifications 4. Repeat
20. Suzette Franck sfranck@mediatemple.net Questions? @mt_Suzette https://speakerdeck.com/suzettefranck