Fancy Some Cache?
Speed up your Wordpress website
Nowadays hosting and bandwidth charges are at an all time low. That said, with most people on shared hosting plans, sometimes your host can get a bit bothered if your website gets a ton of traffic in a short space of time.
When designing websites for clients, most of the time your client will want the option to be able to add pages and news posts themselves. Who wouldn’t right?
When we develop a clients site, our Content Management System (CMS) of choice is Wordpress. Wordpress has improved beyond all recognition over the years and is no longer “just a blog platform”. In fact, this very site runs on Wordpress.
If you didn’t know already, Wordpress is open source software. This means that it’s free to use and more importantly, has hundreds of people working on it to make it better. You can extend your Wordpress website by adding “Plugins”. Plugins are code modules that when installed, add functionality to your site that isn’t there in the default install.
There are too many to list for this post, but one excellent example is WP-Super Cache. You can read up on how it works on the authors site, but essentially it stores “cached” pages on your web-server so that when visitors come, your server doesn’t have to query the database each time.
Anything we can do to speed up our websites is a good thing. Thanks to Donncha O Caoimh for this great plugin.
You can download it from the Wordpress plugin repository.
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Ben is the Managing Director of BPS Designs. A website design company based in Lancashire, UK.
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