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WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site

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Overview

Learn how to optimize a typical WordPress site for speed.

Syllabus

Introduction

Make your WordPress website lightning fast
What you should know

1. Fundamentals of Performance

Why speed is important for websites
How to check and monitor your speed
How websites slow down
Static vs. dynamic sites

2. Hosting

Why hosting matters
PHP versions
Server location

3. Media

Optimize images
Install an image optimizing plug-in
Use a content delivery network (CDN)
Offload audio and video files
Use lazy loading

4. Plugins and Themes

Your theme matters
Plugins: Quality over quantity
Concatenate and minify scripts and styles

5. Database

WordPress database structure
Custom database tables
Limit post revisions

6. Caching

What is caching?
Configuring caching plugins
Cache busting

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Patrick Rauland

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