Decrease WordPress Site Loading Times

[Laura]

1) Upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest version if you haven’t already.
This goes for themes as well. Remove any themes you are not using.

2) Remove all nonessential plugins. Make sure the remaining are upgraded.

3) Only activate plug-ins that are needed.
For example, you don’t need to activate a theme previewing plug-in if you are not planning to change a theme. You don’t need to activate a WordPress database backup plug-in if you are not auto-scheduling a backup, and so on.

4) Install WP SuperCache if you haven’t already. [Most Important One] (Or W3 Total Cache)
It is clear that the WP SuperCache has great performance while having the lowest overall resource hit on the server. It should always be using the least amount of memory and CPU time that it possibly can.

5) Reduce PHP/Database calls as much as you can.
Most CPU usage is caused by the number of PHP and database calls. Using WP SuperCache helps this tremendously, but sometimes it can’t be helped that your blog still has to do some PHP/Database calls. If you can reduce it though, do it. For example if a plug-in allows you to set an option whether to write a log or not (like number of spam comments caught, etc.), then disable it. This will reduce the number of database insertion/update calls.

6) Reduce the number of widgets and other components as much as possible.
Although putting a weather widget or other widgets are cool, do you really need them? Besides cluttering your blog and turning visitors off, it can also put a strain on the server. Turn them off!

7) Repair and optimize your database.
It is updated a lot of times throughout the day, whether you’ve posted or not. There’s a lot of chance for errors there. The process can be completed through phpMyAdmin.

8) Close any Post Writing Pages when you’re not using them.
WordPress will Auto-Save and it uses server resources and builds up CPU usage.

9) Turn off the Formatting Options in Settings
In WordPress, under Settings->Writing uncheck both Formatting options. Especially turn off “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”.

10) Don’t post via e-mail/word.
Write your posts in the Write interface and copy/paste it into Word when you’re done or when you take a break. Don’t make WP spend time parsing your Word file.

11) Use Summaries in Feeds.
Under Settings->Reading, select use “Summaries in Feeds”.

12) Under Settings-Discussion, turn off any e-mail notifications you don’t need.
Especially redundant ones. If you go to your site often, don’t worry about having it e-mail you for comments. Just turn that off.

13) Reduce image/graphics/video/flash sizes. Or at Online sites like tinypng.com
Use Photoshop, Gimp, etc. to reduce the image size, install smush it plugin at wordpress.

14) Rename the file wp-cron.php to wp-cron.php.bak.

Thanks @scottmriley for the information

[tattoobooksonline]

Laura, I sent you a PM w/ Admin creds –

teachmetotattoo.com
KleoAdmin
1234abcd

Any ideas?
Also – GoDaddy.com killed my cache plugin – so if you know of a good one that is GoDaddy approved – that would be appreciated.

[tattoobooksonline]

Also – I just noticed a lot of the images seem to be broken..
even in posts…
http://teachmetotattoo.com/wp-admin/upload.php

Like here (you must be logged in to see the bad image)
http://teachmetotattoo.com/rose-tattoo-tutorial/
This image is missing – weird??
http://teachmetotattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rose-tattoo-stencil.jpg

I did not clear any images or delete any files.
I appreciate your help – if you figure out my issues, I can pay you for your time.
Thank you!

-Charles

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