Optimizing Wordpress

[Jeremy]

Now Shamil, that is one nifty site. Its basically everything that Caelum suggested. A C isn't horrible, but most definitely will be bringing it up. I plan on several improvements on of my own soon.

 

[Shamil]

Now Shamil, that is one nifty site. Its basically everything that Caelum suggested. A C isn't horrible, but most definitely will be bringing it up. I plan on several improvements on of my own soon.

The Radon Systems website gets an A, but Yahoo doesn't recognise the CDN.

 

[simbolo]

And just for kicks I compared Xenforo, vBulletin, and IPB company boards.

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/xenforo.com/3WLz0nD4
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/vbulletin.com/S4Lsc76J
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/community.invisionpower.com/fxFrz40u

 

[D.O.A.]

Well, let's just say I'm tired of my site loading quite slowly, so I am working on angles as to how I can optimize the software and increase efficiency. I plan on upgrading to v3.1 as soon as I can do some quality tests and I am looking to see if I can effectively upgrade my server to a 64-bit platform for free. Any thoughts or suggestions?

caching really helps and also go through your templates and change stuff like php <template paths> into hard coded URL's to reduce queries. Make sure your loops are set up well and not repeating calls to something that could be queried all at once using a multiple loop.

 

[fattony69]

Or even easier, visit: http://gtmetrix.com to get the best of both worlds.

I've done an analysis for you.

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/pittnews.com/PBeOaGkN

Looked at my site and my vBulletin site is ranked better than my XenForo site. WTF.

 

[Kier]

Don't put too much weight on those gtmetrix reports. Some of the things they measure are completely incompatible with dynamic software and others confer such meagre benefits as to not even be worth measuring.

 

[Jeremy]

Don't put too much weight on those gtmetrix reports. Some of the things they measure are completely incompatible with dynamic software and others confer such meagre benefits as to not even be worth measuring.

Most of the stuff it mentioned for my site is easy enough and may be beneficial. Other stuff I give no weight to because I couldn't control it (or it IS dynamic).

 

[Carlos]

The trouble that I have with Wordpress is the lack of gaming skins. Which really frustrates me. And when I do find a good-looking skin, I find out that I can't edit parts of the skin. Most of the skinning sites have ads on their sites AND their own skins. My anti-virus scanner finds spyware/adware on both sides. Two words for skinners: #%^& you.

So now I have to spend a lot of money to get a custom skin.

 

[jörgk]

The trouble that I have with Wordpress is the lack of gaming skins. Which really frustrates me. And when I do find a good-looking skin, I find out that I can't edit parts of the skin. Most of the skinning sites have ads on their sites AND their own skins. My anti-virus scanner finds spyware/adware on both sides. Two words for skinners: #%^& you.

So now I have to spend a lot of money to get a custom skin.

Have you seen this script? http://www.arrastheme.com/

i use this and i am very happy with it.

 

[Carlos]

Have you seen this script? http://www.arrastheme.com/

i use this and i am very happy with it.

The thing that I hate about most themes is that there's only one "sidebar"; I like my site(s) to have 2 sidebars: Left and Right side.

The other thing is: It costs money.

See example here: www.carlos360.com It works as a general gaming site, yes, but recently I purchased www.mw3blog.com so a dark-ish theme is needed. The reason why I want 2 columns is because I want a professional design that doesn't give the impression that I am trying to monetize.

 

[jörgk]

Look to this script. You can change all what you want, with 3-10 clicks. if you want 2 sidebars........No problem with this script.

No they have a free Version and a Version that you can buy.

 

[Carlos]

Look to this script. You can change all what you want, with 3-10 clicks. if you want 2 sidebars........No problem with this script.

No they have a free Version and a Version that you can buy.

Well, I see that Arras theme is free, and I looked at the classical gamer one, which is paid.

Giving it a try nao. Thanks.

 

[jörgk]

Well, I see that Arras theme is free, and I looked at the classical gamer one, which is paid.

Test it. It is really good! In the Arras-Settings and Menu Settings you can change all what you want for the Layout. It comes with a lot of colours and and.....I love it

 

[Carlos]

Test it. It is really good! In the Arras-Settings and Menu Settings you can change all what you want for the Layout. It comes with a lot of colours and and.....I love it

BTW, how is the traffic with the skin? Do you have a SEO plugin underneath wordpress?

 

[jörgk]

At the Moment i have no Seo-Plugin on my Board. That comes in the Next days...........

I have startet my Page for 2 Weeks or so..........I have played arraound with the css Files from this Script, that i have the same Layout, that the Flexible Style has from here.

All other things will come in the next weeks. You can see my Site here: www.mmo-talk.de it is under construction

Sorry for my bad English.....

 

[Carlos]

You don't need a SEO plugin for your [xenforo] board. Its a switchable toggle.

But for a wordpress blog (which you do have on MMOtalk), you would have to install something like All-in-One-SEO.