wordpress optimization

How to Disable JetPack Modules – WordPress Optimization

January 28, 2013

I have already shared about Jetpack WordPress plugin, which is one of the essential plugin for your blog. Jetpack is single plugin, which is developed by Automattic (WordPress parent company), and offers different modules to enhance WordPress features. Some of the notable features of this plugin is: WordPress.com stats integrated Contact form Jetpack Comments Social media sharing Jetpack Autopublicize Mobile theme After the deadline integration These are just few of the features offered by JetPack, and ...

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Wp-Optimize Plugin: Optimize WordPress Database with Single Click

January 20, 2013

WordPress database optimization is one one of the essential task to keep your WordPress blog healthy. WordPress uses MySQL to create tables and database to store data. With time, you end up adding many redundant table data, database overhead in your database, and you should keep removing them to keep your database healthy. Along with this, WordPress features like post revisions, auto-draft also adds more into database size, and you should empty all such tables to keep ...

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Use FV Gravatar Cache WordPress Plugin Cache Gravatar Images

July 5, 2012

Gravatar is one of the service which comes in built with every WordPress blogs. All those images you see in comment form here at ShoutMeLoud or most of the WordPress blogs comes from Gravatar.com. Now, one problem with using gravatar is, it increases the loading time and more DNS query for look up, which slows down our site. If you are new to Gravatar, you should read my earlier post on: Gravatar adds images to ...

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How to LazyLoad images to Improve Page Speed [WordPress]

September 19, 2011

Blog pages with lots of images can take a lot of time to load. The loading time can be decreased by using the sexy lazyloading image effect. Lazyloading script loads images when all the other things on a page are loaded and shows them with a stylish fade-in effect. More over, you will see this effect on many high traffic site including mashable. Lazyload effect can be added using 2 plugins which I am going ...

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WordPress Tags : What is it & How to Organize Them?

May 27, 2011

When we talk about organizing a WordPress blog structure, Tags and categories plays major role. People who migrated from BlogSpot, they often get confused as BlogSpot only offers label. Today, I’m going to talk a little about WordPress tags, so that you can utilize it better and keep your blog structure clean. Read: Check out complete WordPress guide What are WordPress tags? Alright, let me start with hard way and understand tags and categories are entirely ...

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How to Delete Custom Field value from WordPress Database

May 7, 2011

If your WordPress blog is old, probably you will notice lots of custom field meta_key in your WordPress custom field option. The problem with this is that you will see lots of unused custom field values which is added by some old theme or by plugin which you used long time back. Here is a screenshot of ShoutMeLoud custom field which has lots of custom value and many of them are because of old theme ...

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Clean Options WordPress Plugin: Delete Orphan Tables from Database

November 12, 2010

WordPress is no doubt a memory hogging blogging platform but by the end it’s the best blogging platform in terms of SEO andscalability. There are thousands of plugins which will help you to do anything with your WordPress blog. One thing which WordPress need in regular basis is optimization. This could be optimization of your WordPress theme or database. When ever we install a plugin, it adds tables into database and when we disable and ...

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How to Install & Configure W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin

September 22, 2010

Speed of page is an important factor for better reader experience and also from search engine perspective. In WordPress we have many cache plugins that we can use and out of all the plugins, Wp Super cache and W3 total cache are my favorite. I have heard a lot of good things about total cache plugin which is also a caching plugin like Super cache but with more options. Specially if you are planning to use ...

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