Speeding Up wordpress with gmetrix

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Found gmetrix .  This website can test the speed of youe site and gives you tips on how to speed up your site. Looks like it is worthwhile to use and especially test themes with it. They have a special page for wordpress optimization See if you kan turn on KeepAlive on the server itself…. Read more »

Nginx roundup

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So…. setting up nginx has a few pitfals, one thing that you need to do is that in nginx.conf  you have to specify the location of the site on the server for php, otherwise  it will think that the $_server['document_root'] is the default location that nginx was compiled with. I don’t like the fact that… Read more »

Nginx and wordpress

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I looked into setting up nginx. This is supposed to be a faster web server than apache. For set up and installation you better search for information (Google for nginx php-fpm and your OS). The biggest issue is the rewrite rules used by apache and located in .htaccess files. I had tried nginx before and… Read more »