Actually, what you have described is the correct way to do things and there shouldn’t be any noticeable impact on site speed and performance. Using child themes also has the benefit of allowing your changes to persist through theme upgrades.
Yes, it is always better to keep the result of a function call in a private variable. But the reason is not performance. Reliability In your example, you are calling a function that internally accesses a global variable ($post). A global variable can be overwritten any time, so you might end up with two different … Read more
A few things to check on: Review wp_salt. Make sure all of the web servers are running on the same set of salts in the wp-config.php file. Ideally, these should be mirrored from a single location. Review is_ssl() and make sure this function is properly detecting SSL across all of your web servers. I’ve seen … Read more
First a bit of advise (since the solution is based on it) – always “enqueue” your scripts, don’t just add them in the footer. Read this, for example . Now the solution for loading scripts on specific template, since this is what you asked for: function enqueue_themescrits() { if ( is_page_template(‘contact.php’) ) { //the file … Read more
The problem will likely be a (very slow) callback that is attached to your get_the_excerpt() function. To inspect the attached callbacks, just inspect the global: // Best hooked to `shutdown` echo ‘<pre>’.var_export( $GLOBALS[‘wp_filters’][‘get_the_excerpt’], true ).'</pre>’; Then get rid of all those callbacks.
Pods allows you to create meta-based or table-based content types. Meta-based work as normal WP post types do. You can also extend WP objects like Comments, Users, Media, and Taxonomies to add custom fields to those. If you choose to use table-based Pods, it creates a table with the ID field and only the custom … Read more
Speed factor of any function that deals with content such as wp_insert_post() or wp_delete_post() highly depends on the situation and the content that it’s dealing with. Let’s make a simple example. You have a post, that contains featured image, dozen of tags, categories, a thousand custom fields, assigned taxonomies, and a hundred more. When you … Read more
@Tal, Generally speaking you should only be using one caching plugin. WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Hyper Cache and DB Cache Reloaded all drop files directly in your wp-content directory and they would conflict with each other and cause errors if you were using more than one. I would recommend using W3 Total Cache … Read more
W3 Cache will do this for you
Testing is the only way to be sure, but my guess would be that it is not the query itself that is slowing the page load. After you have fetched those 2000 records, you are looping through them. Every time you call get_template_part. This function in turn calls locate_template, which leads to load_template, where you … Read more