Over the past week or so as part of the project I am working on I wanted to speed up a WordPress site that is being used as a CMS. During this process I discovered a two methods (well three technically) that can be used to dramatically shorten the load time for content and speed
Posts Tagged ‘php’
Speeding Up WordPress
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed
Thursday, February 4th, 2010On Tuesday, February 2nd, Facebook announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. It was rumored that this project was an under the table sort of thing. However it turns out, HipHop is not just a runtime, it’s also a new webserver and has been powering 90 percent of Facebook’s servers for months now.
Lightbox Plus 1.5.5
Monday, August 31st, 2009I’ve updated Lightbox Plus to version 1.5.5. It has numerous fixes including:
Optimized and updated additional code to use less memory and run faster
Separated the admin panel output to a separate file
Added some custom admin panel styles
Fixed bug where titles were being broken when DO NOT USE TITLE was checked.
Fixed issue with limited character sets –
FLIR Change Log
Wednesday, July 8th, 20090.8.9.1
Minor interface updates
Quick links in plugins list
Added additiona support and FAQ links to admin panel
Readme and faq update
0.8.9
Moved JavaScript calls to the footer to improve load times.
You must have the wp_footer() call in your template for FLIR to work – see /wp-content/theme/default/footer.php for example.
Updated Facelift to version 2.0b3.
Various improvments to rendering and speed
Using minified version
FLIR Frequently Asked Questions
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009It doesn’t work
There are number of reason the plugin might not work. Check the following:
Please ensure that you have a cache directory at wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/cache and that it is writable. (chmod a+w /cache)
Please ensure that your config-flir.php file exists at wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/config-flir.php and that it is writable. (chmod a+w config-flir.php)
Make sure the wp-content/plugins/facelift-image-replacement/facelift/ is readable
Check your


