Here’s two quick and easy steps you can take to increase your Wordpress sites speed:
Enable Wordpress’s Object Caching
Add define(’ENABLE_CACHE’, true); to your wp-config.php to enable Wordpress’s built in object caching and Wordpress will begin caching all sorts of database queries resulting in an instantaneous performance boost.
Install WP-Cache 2
WP-Cache is a plugin which serializes and caches posts to disk for quick retrieval. It’s also smart enough to keep serialized data on the disk up to date so it won’t serve stale content.
In the midst of some downtime, I finally got around to doing something I’d planned to do for 2 or 3 years; give autosystems.ie a complete rewrite/redesign. At the moment the homepage is a mess of static content and things don’t get much better when we look at the shopping cart system. The shopping cart as it stands right now is a pretty hacked up version of OSCommerce which has been slowly disintegrating over the past year. No less than 4 times in the past year I’ve had a call from my brother where it had broken unexpectedly, seemingly without any user interaction whatsoever.
So I decided to set about developing a really simple shopping cart system which would be a snap to maintain and which my brother would find easy to use. I also needed to implement a really lightweight CMS so that he could change some page elements on the homepage informing people of new offers and the like. 4 hours later and I’ve got a pretty nifty Ajax shopping cart system working. There’s still quite a bit to do (payment functionality with PayPal/Authorize.net for one) but on the whole I’m amazed at how quickly it came together. Well, maybe not that amazed, I have been using it to develop Runt over the past few months.
Monday, July 23, 2007
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