Tag Archives: plugins

WordPress Adds Plugin Directory to WordPress.Org

Now all of the WordPress plugins that are used to extend and enhance our blogs can be found in once centralized location. The new WordPress Plugins Directory. This will be great for both the users and developers of the incredible WordPress application.

Decrease WordPress Blog Load Times With WP-Cache!

I have been tinkering with various WordPress Plugins to improve the site. I have been very impressed with WP-Cache 2.0. Enabling the plugin increase the speed of the site tremendously. Site load times went from and 3.17s to 0.56s.

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.

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