Cleaning house
I was most amused to find that the same four thousand posts that took up 20 megabytes of database space in Movable Type took 15 mb in WordPress.
That’s the good news. The bad news: while MT grinds a lot at well-spaced intervals to produce static pages which load pretty quickly most of the time, WP grinds a little all the time to serve up dynamic pages which rely heavily on database queries, which adds to the time you have to wait for a page.
In an effort to address this issue, I stripped out a few bits of eye candy and, more important, banished the category listing from the sidebar, which required several dozen queries all by itself. If you need to see the list, it’s on a tab at the top of the page.
If you were wondering where the random quotes are, well, I’ve tried two different plugins to run them, and didn’t much like either. Research into this matter continues.
There will be further tweaks and such, of course, because that’s what I do.
Oh, and yes, I rescanned the bird. Saved a couple hundred bytes.
robohara »
10 September 2008 · 7:54 am
There are lots of tiny PHP scripts that can serve up random quotes (and can be added to any WordPress template). Lemme know if you decide to go that route.
McGehee »
10 September 2008 · 8:03 am
I wish I knew whether there were a way to adapt the randomizer.php that comes standard with EE.
These days I only use it on one page anymore, and it’s not one most people ever see (hit refresh to see what randomizes).
Terry »
10 September 2008 · 5:19 pm
I use wp-cache plugin, which speeds things up considerably. Super-cache is supposed to be even faster, though I haven’t upgraded to it.
McGehee »
10 September 2008 · 7:40 pm
A commenter at AoS suggested Super-cache for Patterico, who has apparently been having some server burden troubles.
McGehee »
11 September 2008 · 3:49 pm
That randomized page link in my first comment above should now be this.