Optimize wordpress
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The document outlines strategies for optimizing WordPress sites focusing on enhancing speed, security, and usability. Key recommendations include selecting suitable plugins, implementing caching solutions, using appropriate themes, and reinforcing security measures against spammers. The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining updated plugins and efficient coding practices to improve overall site performance.
Optimize wordpress
- 1. Optimize Your WordPress Site Better, Faster, Stronger
- 2. David Parsons Work at HostDime.com Web Developer WordPress Developer @david_j_parsons [email protected]
- 3. Optimize To make as perfect, effective, or functional as possible merriam-webster.com
- 4. My Definition Better - Plugins Faster - Speed Stronger - Security
- 5. Why Optimize Stupid Google Speed has been a ranking factor sense 2010 Usability Quality Credibility
- 6. Why WordPress Themes Plugins Community Save Money Greater Accessibility - CMS
- 8. Better! Plugins Your Personal Unfair Advantage
- 9. Plugins Image Compression General - Upload images at exact size needed Plugin - WP Smush.it (being dropped) CW Image Optimizer EWWW Image Optimizer Applications - One for Mac and One for PC imageoptim.com and pnggauntlet.com
- 10. Plugins Social Media Tweet Old Posts TwitPic WP to Twitter Twitter Feed for WordPress ShareThis & TweetMeme Button
- 11. Plugins Contact Forms Gravity Forms Contact Forms 7 Fast and Secure Contact Form
- 12. Plugins Make Search Not Suck Search by Relevance, Not by Date Enhance The Display of Results
- 13. Plugins SEO WordPress SEO by Yoast
- 14. My Favorite Plugin JetPack Custom CSS Mobile Theme Subscriptions Comments
- 15. Non-Plugins
- 16. Final Note on Plugins Resist the Urge for Several Plugins Deactivate and Delete old Plugins/Themes Keep Plugins Updated Go for the Better Supported Plugins
- 18. Why Faster? Why is 3 or 4 seconds not good enough? Phones People are in a rush Around 5% of the web still uses DialUp “For Every 100ms Increase in load time, sales decreased by 1%” - Amazon 2007
- 20. One More Tool... Google Page Speed Checker
- 21. Hope Your Doing This Have separate file for CSS Load Javascript and other bigger things at bottom of page
- 22. Faster Quick Fix #1 - Cache Browser Cache (Saving Files) Expires Headers Server Cache (One Static File) Plugin - W3 Total Cache
- 23. More On Browser Cache https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/ blob/master/.htaccess # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Expires headers (for better cache control) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Up To You!
- 24. Faster Quick Fix #2 - Combine Combine Your CSS Files Combine JS Files Tool - CodeKit Why? - Less Server Requests
- 25. Faster Quick Fix #3 - Theme Choose the Right Theme Themes with lots of Graphics will take Longer to Load Double Check CSS and JS Keep Number of Requests in Mind
- 26. Compare and Contrast
- 27. Faster Quick Fix #4 - MaxCDN http://www.maxcdn.com
- 28. Faster Quick Fix #5 - GZIP https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/ # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Gzip compression # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Or Use a Plugin GZIP Enable GZIP Output Gzippy
- 29. Faster Not A Quick Fix! Hosting Shared Host Virtual Private Server Fully Dedicated Colocation (HostDime.com Specific)
- 30. Final Note On Plugins Lets Not Get Crazy!
- 31. Stronger! Go Away Spammers! Spammers are constantly injecting scripts Slowing Your Server Down Essential Plugins Akismet/JetPack Spam Free WordPress Other Option - Captcha
- 32. Stronger Don’t Use ‘admin’ Don’t use ‘admin’ as your username WordPress 3.0+ lets you change it For older versions - Open phpMyAdmin and run this query:
- 33. Stronger P: Login LockDown Only lets users try and log in a certain amount of times
- 34. Stronger P: Secure WordPress • Removes error-information on login-page • Adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual) • Removes the wp-version, except in admin-area • Removes Really Simple Discovery • Removes Windows Live Writer • Removes core update information for non-admins • Removes plugin-update information for non-admins • Removes theme-update information for non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher) • Hides wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins • Removes version on URLs from scripts and stylesheets only on frontend • Blocks any bad queries that could be harmful to your WordPress website
- 35. Stronger Move wp-config.php WordPress automatically looks for wp- config.php if it cannot find it This way, no one except a user with FTP or SSH access to your server will be able to read the file
- 36. Stronger Change Database Tables Prefixes Default table prefix is wp_... If left in tact, everyone knows the name Can edit by going into wp-config.php Plugin - WP Secure Scan
- 37. Stronger Change Default Secret Keys In wp-config.php you have 4 secret keys define('AUTH_KEY', ''); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', ''); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', ''); define('NONCE_KEY', ''); Makes logging in to your site even harder for those crazy hackers
- 38. Stronger Protect wp-admin Plugin - AskApache Password Protect Block people from finding your content though server access ... use .htaccess wp-includes wp-content Plugins & Themes
- 39. Stronger Passwords Letters Numbers Special Characters Caps
- 40. Stronger Backups Plugins WP Database Backup WP Backup to DropBox Backup to Google Drive Premium - VaultPress
- 41. Final Note On Security It Depends! .htaccess
- 42. Take Away Less Stuff = Faster WordPress
- 43. Thank You! [email protected] Tell me how I did! HostDime.com @david_j_parsons Will Post Slides on Twitter davidparsons.me Slides will be on BarCamp Site