I wanted to take a moment and discuss 3 overlooked things you should avoid when considering WordPress optimization. These are more advanced considerations when trying to take optimization to the next level. Over the years, obsession drove me to finding the best possible setups, settings, and configurations for a WordPress…
When switching a WordPress install from Apache to LiteSpeed, you're likely going to encounter permission errors and warnings within WordPress. This is due to LiteSpeed using the server user nobody. Through Webuzo, I switched from Apache to LiteSpeed and immediately started seeing the errors in WordPress. It was still fully…
At some point in time you may have pushed your website's images to the cloud, whether it be to S3 (AWS) or a host like DigitalOcean's Spaces. These images are now sitting in storage needing to be compressed. And as we know, any compression is helpful when it comes to…
When trying to use LiteSpeed Cache and wpDiscuz together, there are some problems when using minify CSS and JS. The comment box doesn't work properly and you will see 404 errors in the console. We need to exclude wpDiscuz files from caching. Just add these to the CSS/JS excludes. JS…
When configuring your server settings for best performance, you have to look at every option available. Typically, OPcache should already be enabled along with its default settings. When I do any optimizations, I like to do some searching around the web to see what others are doing. I'll find a…
If you're going to be running your own WordPress website, even if you are using a free theme, these tools will make the development easier.