Options are persistent. You can set them when you activate your theme and then just use them. There’s no need to change them when rendering any particular page unless your logic actually changes them. And doing so may cause confusion. For example, lots of changes to image and thumbnail default sizes will make your Media … Read more
Recently an error occurred while creating the CSS / JS minify cache… Frederick Townes, the developer of W3 Total Cache, himself said that the notifications “functionality really gives too many false positives right now and should be disabled.” That was 4 months ago, and still holds true today. I have this very same error showing … Read more
There’s never one magic answer to broad performance questions. It’s like choosing a vehicle — the best choice for one person or situation may be a lousy choice for another. Here specifically, it’s even more granular: the best answer for one query maybe not even be the best answer for another! There isn’t enough information … Read more
Well, it seems SAVEQUERIES is the culprit. After disabling SAVEQUERIES memory usage is down.
Not a hard task at the end. I’ve managed to do it in two chunks with UPDATE wp_options SET autoload = ‘no’ WHERE option_name LIKE ‘category%’; and UPDATE wp_options SET autoload = ‘no’ WHERE option_name LIKE ‘_category%’;
These various resized images come from registered image sizes, usually from your theme, and sometimes from plugins. If a theme registers an image size, it expects to use that size in the front-end. This is most useful in an image gallery or slideshow, when you need images to be an exact ratio of width to … Read more
You can disable the caching if you set update_post_meta_cache and update_post_term_cache to false while setting the WP_Query arguments. When caching is disabled the data will be requested from the database only on demand. You can check my post in here. If you need more info just let me know.
After trying a few image optimization plugins resmush.it did the trick. If you reduce the JPG quality to 70% Google should stop complaining and images still look good. The plugin is even free. Of course your images also have to be scaled properly.
Optimizing the CSS for WordPress is a time consuming job. You will have to consider all pages (404, archive, search, etc) as well as every possible element that you can think of, such as images, ordered lists, un-ordered lists, quotes, galleries, etc. Not to mention that your theme might use some sort of AJAX or … Read more
Considering the requirements that you’ve outlined, custom post types are definitely an appropriate choice for managing resources within WordPress. You get a CRUD interface right out of the box (just in case you’d like to leverage it) and WP All Import works nicely with WordPress posts, meta data, and taxonomies. There are great APIs for … Read more