Slow WordPress websites can be difficult to improve especially if we don't have a plan on how to resolve the problem. I have a list of five recommendations that I always look at doing when trying to resolve speed issues.
For the majority of websites, a great amount of the content doesn't change from day to day or even month to month. When a site gets a lot of repeat traffic we can dramatically reduce the load and costs by caching.
PHP's time() function returns the current unix timestamp. JavaScript doesn't exactly have the same functionality, but it's pretty close. Put a different and more understandable way, it returns the current time measured in seconds since the Unix Epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970). JavaScript has a similar way of getting the time but it's in milliseconds since the Unix Epoch.
Magento Site Performance Optimization by Mathieu Nayrolles is a handy little primer on the basics of optimizing a server for magento. This…
Self-hosted WordPress sites often attract a lot of comment spam which requires your valuable time or resources to reduce to more manageable…
Akismet has worked extremely well for me over the last two years, it’s only inaccurately identified two comments as spam out of…
When I first heard of Zen Coding on Sitepoint, I figured it was some other gimmick that might save me about 0.01%…
I spend a significant amount of my timing deal with ecommerce and different shopping systems. One of my all time favourite solutions…
WAMP Server generally runs fine without any problems, although sometimes we have to make some configuration changes because of other software monitoring…
Getting WAMP to run properly on Windows 7 isn’t very difficult as long as the permissions are properly set. Also, keep in…
I had a very strange issue with a client’s installation of magento a few nights ago. The checkout page was completely blank…
PEAR Mail & mail_mime is absolutely fantastic for sending multi-part mime emails and requires absolutely no effort. Probably, the best part of…
PEAR as I’m sure you’re aware stands for “PHP Extension and Application Repository” and is one of the leading frameworks for reusable…
A while ago, Facebook created the Facebook Like Button that works by using an iframe of FBML. The Like button allows you…
The easiest way of telling what version of Magento you are running is by viewing file app/Mage.php and looking for a function…
What is Magento? Magento is an open source eCommerce platform with two versions: Magento Community Editon, and Magento Enterprise Edition. Magento is…
Magento is an insanely flexible system that has a lot of potential, but of course with this flexibility comes a lot of…
I really like magento, and a lot of the built in features although it can be difficult sometimes to figure out how…
Professional PHP Design Patterns written by Aaron Saray, coming in at around 250 pages is a very short and concise book. Unfortunately,…
Editing the footer links in magento is actually pretty easy. By default, there should be a static block called footer_links. The static…