Blazing Fast Ads, Don’t Let OpenX Slow You Down
If you serve your own advertisements using OpenX you are among the growing number of people that have taken control of their own ad serving platform. I have been using …
speed up wordpress
YSlow Optimization Part 4 – AJAX, DOM Elements, 404’s, Cookies and Scaling
This is the forth and final “installment” in my YSlow series, if you haven’t read the previous posts you can catch up at any time as they aren’t going anywhere. …
YSlow Optimization Part 3 – CSS Expressions, External CSS and Javascript, DNS Lookups and Configuring ETags
Happy Monday and welcome to part 3 in my tutorial series on YSlow optimization. Today I am going to go over a few trouble areas and provide a means to …
WordPress Featured Post Slider Using jCarousel
Having an effective WordPress featured post slider can be a great, functional addition to your site that provides ease of access to your viewers as well as SEO benefits. Recently …
Pinpoint Target Your Adsense Contextual Ads
Adsense, what a great little revenue generating monster. I don’t personally know of anyone that hates it, most love it and typically the only people you hear bitching about it are the ones who have been kicked out of the program for policy violations. As for me personally[…]
Ditch database queries, speed up WordPress
Wordpress is made so it is user friendly and easy to implement, so there are several ways that it can be optimized from it’s standard configuration. One of these ways is to reduce the number of database queries that are needed to retrieve the information to create the page, thus reducing database load and making your site load faster and saving server resources for when your post gets to the front page on Digg and just make the world a happier place overall.
The first place to go to reduce queries is your header.php file for your theme. If you open it in your favorite editor you will see many lines of code that looks something like this:[…]