Speed Up WordPress WITH or WITHOUT a WordPress Cache

Published: July 8, 2008, 8:13 am

Tags: wordpress, ads, adsense, caching, code, css, functions, google, hacking, javascript, php, plugins, speed

Although using a plugin that caches WordPress is the best overall solution, I can't use any of them with the way I run this blog. I did the research, tried the hacks, and ended up falling flat on my nose. I'll explain what I finally ended up doing after I list the options. WordPress Caching Plugins There are a few plugins that work well. There may be more, but these are ones I know about. I'll try to keep it all in order and add notes and links. WP-Cache 2.0 This is probably the one that started it all. It was abandoned by the author on [it looks like] October, 24, 2007 when he abandoned his blog. The only way to enable compression with it is to enable zlib.output_compression in the php.ini (if you have access to it) and disable the compression inside of WordPress (not included in the current version anyway). The latest version of WP-Cache still works with WordPress. WP-Cache NoSymlink This is exactly like WP-Cache except that it works on servers where symbolic links

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