Comments on: WordPress Blog Loading Slowly? http://turnipofpower.com/wordpress-blog-loading-slowly/ Gardening Adventures Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Turnip http://turnipofpower.com/wordpress-blog-loading-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-4406 Turnip Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:16:03 +0000 http://turnipofpower.com/?p=1011#comment-4406 If the function called to remove the plugin CSS doesn't change, then upgrading the plugin won't matter. If you delete the line in the plugin that adds CSS to the header, then you will have to repeat the process each update. Fortunately, most plugin updates are complete BS. When you read the details, you find out the only change is "donation link updated and Chinese language files included". If wordpress changes versions, then I expect real plugin changes to occur, but not before. In the end, I prefer to remove plugins from my blog rather than maintain them. Trust me, both you and your readers can live without them. If the function called to remove the plugin CSS doesn’t change, then upgrading the plugin won’t matter. If you delete the line in the plugin that adds CSS to the header, then you will have to repeat the process each update. Fortunately, most plugin updates are complete BS. When you read the details, you find out the only change is “donation link updated and Chinese language files included”. If wordpress changes versions, then I expect real plugin changes to occur, but not before. In the end, I prefer to remove plugins from my blog rather than maintain them. Trust me, both you and your readers can live without them.

]]> By: Willem Kossen http://turnipofpower.com/wordpress-blog-loading-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-4405 Willem Kossen Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:15:40 +0000 http://turnipofpower.com/?p=1011#comment-4405 Thanks for the tips Turnip. I recently had a thorough review by WebBetty on 10thingsihateaboutyoursite.com and the main problem was load time. The pingdom test made it perfectly clear for me where some additional problems are. However, I'm no guru on the techniques used in wordpress... There is one bit that concerns me though. If you start taking css and scripts from plugins, and the same for pictures and combine them etc. what happens if you update the plugin? All this custom coding makes your site harder to maintain. Any thoughts on that? Cheers! Thanks for the tips Turnip. I recently had a thorough review by WebBetty on 10thingsihateaboutyoursite.com and the main problem was load time. The pingdom test made it perfectly clear for me where some additional problems are. However, I’m no guru on the techniques used in wordpress…

There is one bit that concerns me though. If you start taking css and scripts from plugins, and the same for pictures and combine them etc. what happens if you update the plugin? All this custom coding makes your site harder to maintain. Any thoughts on that?

Cheers!

]]> By: Turnip http://turnipofpower.com/wordpress-blog-loading-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-4374 Turnip Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:40:34 +0000 http://turnipofpower.com/?p=1011#comment-4374 Rebecca: Linking to offsite images is called "hotlinking". It's a big no-no. Even if you have permission to link to the image, as you said, it will slow your site down. At worse you may get some nasty emails fromt he owner of the image, find the image suddenly gone, or worse, find the image replaced by an x-rated picture just to teach you a lesson Tahimbo: While some web designers hate image maps, they really do serve a purpose. Rebecca: Linking to offsite images is called “hotlinking”. It’s a big no-no. Even if you have permission to link to the image, as you said, it will slow your site down. At worse you may get some nasty emails fromt he owner of the image, find the image suddenly gone, or worse, find the image replaced by an x-rated picture just to teach you a lesson

Tahimbo: While some web designers hate image maps, they really do serve a purpose.

]]> By: tahtimbo http://turnipofpower.com/wordpress-blog-loading-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-4373 tahtimbo Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:30:40 +0000 http://turnipofpower.com/?p=1011#comment-4373 Hello, I was able to take care of a few things that you mentioned: compressed my CSS and I removed some rarely used scripts. My load time went from 11.3 seconds down to 6 seconds. Thank you!! I will return to work on some of the other issues you raised...namely the image map. Hello, I was able to take care of a few things that you mentioned: compressed my CSS and I removed some rarely used scripts. My load time went from 11.3 seconds down to 6 seconds. Thank you!! I will return to work on some of the other issues you raised…namely the image map.

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