WordPress performance: 17 things to do right now
WordPress has a low barrier to entry and encourages experimentation, which are both good things for developers. But once a WordPress site is up and running, you need to get it running fast enough to keep Google happy. Luckily WordPress performance is easy to get started with: there are quite a few quick things you can do to improve the performance of vanilla WordPress installs. Check your loops first for expensive code . Optimization-wise, loops are low-hanging fruit. Use GLPTimer , cache grind, or similar to find bottlenecks. Focus on the WordPress loop and any other big loops. Minimise SQL calls inside loops: see #2. For other stuff commonly seen inside loops see #7 and #15. Start caching lookup data . Pre-fetch all the results you need in a single query, and store them in a single array. Optimize the query so it only selects the columns you actually need. For example: say for each post you also want to look up some taxonomy term names a...