A Simple Hack to Boost Wordpress Load Time

July 21, 2007

Like most webmasters, I’m always trying to increase my blog’s loading speed. Currently, I am not satisfied as my load speed is not as fast it could be. Most of you should already have the WP-Cache plugin installed, and this should speed up things quite a bit. The next step would be to uninstall all the fluff plugins you don’t use.

Here’s a quick hack to your wp-config.php file that should get things going faster
Did you know Wordpress will try and cache all kinds of database queries as files on disk? It’s so simple. Just add the following to your wp-config.php:

// Enable the WordPress Object Cache:
define(ENABLE_CACHE, true);

This can give a noticeable and immediate performance benefit. Less queries = less overhead and more CPU to go do other things. Leave a comment on whether this worked for you.

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