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Optimizing Wordpress Cache

Ricardo Galli’s WP-Cache is great for speeding up your Wordpress blog. Wordpress Cache “caches” pages and stores them in a static file for serving future requests rather than loading, compiling and building the page from your database.

WP-Cache began with Staticize Reloaded by Matt Mullenweg and Bill Zeller and will hopefully be added to future versions of Wordpress as a plugin?

Jeremy Gillick (software engineer and cool prankster) says:

Last week my keyboard prank post was promoted to the front page of Digg and within minutes my WordPress blog was down for the count. Being slightly embarrassed I tried get my site back online and along the way found several things you can do to prevent this from happening to you!

MySql is only part of the issue — why abuse your database server if you don’t have to? WP-Cache is a WordPress plugin that caches your posts to static HTML files to save your database and server cycles.

This saves your MySql server by keeping the number of connections to a minimum. Also since WordPress is written in PHP, which is an interpreted language that must be parsed each time a page is requested, caching the pages as HTML saves your web server cycles and speeds up the load time for your viewers.
By default the cache is used for an hour until it’s expired and refreshed with new content. Since I wanted to view the recent comments quicker than that I changed the expiration time to 4 minutes (or 240 seconds). To change this click Options > WP-Cache and change the expire time value and then click ‘Change Expiration’. Be sure to read the WP-Cache instructions on how to install and configure it.

So there you have it, the exact reason why you might want to download and use WP-cache, it is the first step in optimizing your blog. Now if we can just get Ricardo to use Trev’s Translate Widget we can read what he is saying in his blog. ;)

Posted by admin 11.May.06

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