WP Super Cache

Speedup wordpress blog with Wp Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

by Avinash · 4 comments

Today we will talk about two WordPress plugins which can speed up your WordPress blog letting it load up fast and help you reduce wordpress server load with your Hosting. Even though, these plugins make your life easy on a shared hosting, they are needed even on a dedicated or Virtual Server too so that your Server performs well, remains stable and your blogs loads lightning fast.

WP Super Cache

It is one of the oldest and best caching plugins available for WordPress blogs which acts as very fast caching engine that produces static html files.

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

This got quite a simple interface for Novice or average users and you shouldn’t be worried about complicated settings. If you are not sure of advance settings, just use the Easy tab, select “Caching ON”. That’s all. You are done.

If you are advance user and you want to customize settings, try the “Advanced” tab. You can play with settings like mod_rewrite, PHP caching, Legacy caching, compression etc.

W3 Total Cache

Its another caching plugin which improves your page loading time and server performance making it more stable and fast. This plugin has got loads of options and it may confuse a novice user. It can integrate content delivery network (CDN) to your WordPress blog making your blog load much faster.

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

Features

  • Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private / dedicated servers and dedicated servers / clusters
  • Transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
  • Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk or on CDN (mirror only)
  • Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
  • Caching of feeds (site, categories, tags, comments, search results) in memory or on disk or on CDN (mirror only)
  • Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
  • Caching of database objects in memory or on disk
  • Caching of objects in memory or on disk
  • Minification of posts and pages and feeds
  • Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
  • Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
  • Browser caching using cache-control, future expire headers and entity tags (ETag)
  • JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location control
  • Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
  • Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)

W3 total cache provides a complete solution and it can even utilise APC cache, Memcad to improve the server and blog performance. Even if you are on  shared hosting, it uses Disk caching .

Out of these two plugins, choose one which you think suits best for you. If you are a average user, you can go for WP Super Cache and if you are advance user, you can try W3 total cache for full caching performance plus benefit of CDN integration.

How to reduce wordpress’s server load on Shared Hosting

by Avinash · 41 comments

For everyone of you, who use wordpress as a platform with shared hosting for his/her blog will know the importance of this post. So before i start writing about how to reduce server load due to wordpress on shared hosting, i would talk a bit on wha prompted me to write this.

My another blog  Avinashtech – Software tips and tricks was hosted on a webhost which suspended my account as i have said in my previosu post due to high server use as they alleged. That all lead to me doing a bit of research on ways to reduce server load.

Many of you may not be knowing whats the limit of CPU usage you can have for your blog on your Shared hosting package. Generally this varies from 1-8%  but webhosts that oversell put the limit to just 1% of total server resourcs.

As wordpress runs using php excuting so many queries through php, hence if your site isnt optimised it may result in your blog exceeding the server resource limit. Apart from just the wordpress, its the plugins often that result in excessive server usages. Normally every wordpress blog is run along with 5-10 plugins.

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7 Best WordPress Plugins You need for your blog

by Avinash · 4 comments

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Right after you install your first wordpress blog, you start searching for additional functionality which is offered by plugins. This plugins featu

re makes wordpress almost perform any function you required loaded with tons of customization.

I will be talking about the basic wordpress plugins which should be part of a wordpress blog at minimum making it capable of all the functions like SEO, Spam blocking and some other important features to your blog.

  1. Akismet :- Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. You need a wordpress API key which you can easily get by creating a account with wordpress.com. This is the best spam blocking plugin available for wordpress and you should install it.
  2. WP Super Cache :- This is one of the best and must have  plugin if you are hosting your blog on a paid host or free host. It helps reduce your server load which is most important for having your resources within shared hosting limit. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. Click to continue…