I’d say make the button–but not for performance reasons. I think if you benchmark it, you’ll find that any performance overhead added by running a simple function like this (one that does some simple string concat) is quite minimal. Or, at least, down to fractions of fractions of a second on a decent server. If … Read more
This isn’t WordPress, it is Firefox’ Link prefetching. You can turn it off. Serve those requests nothing: # Serve Firefox’ prefetch requests an empty page RewriteCond %{HTTP_X_MOZ} ^prefetch$ RewriteRule ^ – [L,R=204]
The short answer is… not by much. WordPress relies on, as scribu (a guy who started by writing very clever and useful plugins, such as Posts 2 Posts, WP CLI, Plugin Dependencies and many many others, ending up in the WP core team for a while) put it: crappy language (PHP, an ancient version to … Read more
Solution for WordPress versions >= 4.7.4 (4.8) Ticket #31071 introduces patches with new filters to override three possible slow media queries, in the wp_enqueue_media() function: media_library_show_audio_playlist (@param bool|null) From the inline doc: Whether to show the button, or null to decide based on whether any audio files exist in the media library. media_library_show_video_playlist (@param bool|null) … Read more
Not sure, but currently in my mind the first solution. Do you need the data from WordPress for the authentication. If you include the wp-load.php you have access to WordPress and his functions, maybe to identifier. But the file to include as static path is not really great and solid. define( ‘WP_USE_THEMES’, FALSE ); require( … Read more
To have the JavaScript Libraries not to load since you already created a bundle of them, do the following: Asumming the following, usual enqueue: function the_js() { wp_enqueue_script(‘bundle_js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/bundle.js’, array(), false, false); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘the_js’); and lets say you have in your bundle the following libraries (listing the handles): jquery backbone colorpicker bootstrap_js … Read more
@Tal, In terms of performance an unmanaged VPS will be better than a managed one. A Managed VPS will almost always come with CPanel which is great for shared hosting and for hosting companies to easily manage your VPS for you. You can still install any of the Opcode caching tools (APC, eAccelerator, XCache, MemCached) … Read more
WordPress can be a resource hog if you don’t use caching. W3 Total Cache could help you a lot with MySQL, Object and Page Caching. You should also install PHP-APC and use it with the plugin. It can do wonders.
…would WordPress be able to render the website in less than one second… WordPress is perfectly scalable to the amount of content and user base you’re describing. You just need the horsepower for httpd (apache/nginx) to be able show one second page loads and have the database server (mysql, maria) respond fast, too. You also … Read more
Yes, Plugins effect site loading time. There are many poorly written Plugins that make unnecessary database queries and load numerous files to the page. The extra JavaScript and CSS files are not that big of deal unless you are using numerous plugins. I have worked on large sites that had 30 or 40 active plugins … Read more