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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Fixing slow WordPress sites

The default WordPress installation gives fast access to content and features. As we add data, features, and plugins, it will start to slow down. This is common for all websites. However, we might come to a stage where the site is functioning too slowly for the users. In such cases, we have to improve the performance and resolve issues that are contributing to the slowness of the site.

A WordPress site can slow down for different reasons, such as large amounts of data in the database, unnecessary file loading, too many active plugins, and too many database queries. We can fix the slowness issue by enabling caching features, optimizing the file-loading process, and reducing unnecessary database queries.

In this recipe, we are going to use existing plugins to fix the slowness of the site through the use of the cache, file minification, and removing plugins...