wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips

Tag: "optimization"

WordPress is a CPU hog – use caching plugins!

Miriam Schwab | April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments

A few days ago I wrote about 38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog. One of the issues I touched on is the use of caching plugins, like WP-Cache 2 and WP Super ... View Post

38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog

Miriam Schwab | April 23, 2008 | 56 Comments

WordPress blogs and sites can be notoriously slow. But fear not - here are ways to make your WordPress blog super speedy and fun for your visitors to view with a few tweaks, hacks and plugins. Be sure to check back because I will be updating this post as I discover new and wonderful ... View Post

WordPressGarage now has a Google PageRank!

| October 29, 2007 | 6 Comments

I just noticed that WordPressGarage finally has a Google PageRank! For many many months, this blog has had no PageRank, for reasons I don't completely understand. It seems that Google sweeps the web very infrequently, doling out page ranks as they go along. These PageRanks stick until the next time around, ... View Post

My favorite WordPress tip

| September 8, 2007 | 1 Comment

Blogging Challenge - Lorelle on WordPress

In Lorelle's latest blog challenge, she asks us to describe our favorite WordPress tip. She says to think back to when we started experimenting with WordPress, and try to remember what tips we found valuable. I started ... View Post

Optimize your database with Optimize DB plugin

| August 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

After a while, WordPress blogs and sites can start to feel a bit slow, and this is often a result of a cluttered database. Being a dynamic platform, WordPress stores its information in database tables. As you activate and deactivate plugins, information may be added to existing tables, or new tables may be created ... View Post

Amazon-like plugin tells users what other people viewed

| August 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

Here is a perfect example of why I love plugin developers! Weblog Tools Collection has released a new plugin that should help you really increase the stickiness of your site: Where did they go from here? Here's the description:

This plugin tries to create a

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StumbleUpon: the search for meaning continues

| July 19, 2007 | 3 Comments

As I mentioned in a previous post, StumbleUpon can be a sudden source of massive traffic to your blog. But how it works is a mystery to me. Today I came across ... View Post

StumbleUpon can bring you serious traffic

| July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Take StumbleUpon seriously. It can bring you serious traffic. A few days ago I wrote a post about protecting your WordPress site. It was, in my opinion, an average post. Well, someone out there must have thought it was something spectacular, because since then every few ... View Post

Things I do to optimize and secure every WordPress site and blog

Miriam Schwab | July 6, 2007 | 7 Comments

(Updated Sept. 9, 2007) I have compiled a to-do list of plugins that I install and steps that I take to optimize and secure every WordPress site or blog that I create. This list will be updated with new developments or plugins and tips that I discover, so make sure to check ... View Post

Increase PHP memory to fix issues with WordPress plugins

| May 23, 2007 | 0 Comments

Bloggerdesign.com has suggested a solution for WordPress blogs where the plugins are working one minute, and the next minute they are not, or where generally strange things are happening. The suggestion, that worked for them, is to increase your PHP memory. This is why: