What permissions should I set on each of wp folders? Users will need to upload various assets (images, pdfs, office docs, audio, video). I found this article here that seems helpful, but would like to get some input from folks having done this? This will be the same as any other web server. Whatever user … Read more
This type of question is open ended to answer because it depends on many variables. The typical memory usage of bare WP usually starts at 15MB and scales up. What you can do is turn on debugging and install the Debug Bar plugin and it will show you the amount of memory you’re using. In … Read more
System Requirements MainWP Requires the following to work correctly: WordPress 3.6 or greater WordPress Memory Limit 64MB or more PHP version 5.3 or greater (PHP 5.6 or greater recommended) PHP Safe Mode Disabled PHP Max Execution Time 30 seconds or more PHP Memory Limit 128MB or more cURL Library Enabled cURL Timeout 300 seconds or … Read more
Did you try to change the PHP version from 5.6 to 7.x? It can help to improve page load speed. If you use CPanel you can change it below on “MultiPHP Manager” menu. If you use cache plugins try to disable them. Some kind of plugins can decrease the load speed. If it doesn’t help … Read more
Try either of these for your site, either one will guide you to better page load performance. http://webpagetest.org http://gtmetrix.com
When dealing with any server configurations you want to setup some sort of safety to avoid this kind of processes running infinitely. PHP already provides you some tools to do it, and it’s pretty easy. – exit_on_timeout – max_execution_time You will need to find a safe spot for what you are running inside of your … Read more
Unfortunately, load times are such a broad question it’s not possible for others to speculate. There are various page speed tools that can help you better understand whether it’s the server or the application, and there are query monitor plugins for WP you can use to determine what part of the application may be slowing … Read more
This is something that you probably can’t change if you didn’t create the theme yourself. It means that CSS that you don’t need on page load is loaded later. This is determined by the speed of your server (the server itself and its internet connection). If you use a caching plugin (I don’t know if … Read more
I would personally go for using a class to apply colour rather than an inline stylesheet. This way if you need to change the colour being applied to the list element then you can just that once in the class and every list element will show the correct colour, otherwise you need to go through … Read more
Generally you can’t impact when and how your plugins are loading their own stylesheets. Messing around with that will usually mean you can never update because it’ll reset all your work. That’s the trade off of using plugins – you lose control over some things that impact your performance, accessiblity, and validation. Without astronomical budgets … Read more