Comments on: Housekeeping: Site Improvements

By: JB

JB — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:38:55 +0000

Recliners: Glad that it’s moving good for you. Hopefully it will stay that way!

By: Recliners

Recliners — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:40:34 +0000

The site is loading quicker and is making things a lot simpler, thanks.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:48:32 +0000

Jeremy: We talked about that on the podcast some, Chris has had a hosting issue as the provider he was using closed up shop. His Ruby sites are totally borked until he can get new hosting. I’m trying to get him to move in with me here at Media Temple but he doesn’t seem to be ready for that phase in our relationship.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:26:58 +0000

Ah yes – what’s up with the copyright 2.0 site? Seems like it has been down for a while.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:50:44 +0000

Will: Hm, that is disheartening. The install of super cache seems to have done the site some good (at least no one here has said PT is moving slower) but it was very difficult and, as I said, it did bork the site for a while.

Now that I have it working I’m not going to remove it but I’m also going to not recommend it unless you know how to deal with server errors. I’ve been doing sites for 10 years and that stuff still spooks me.

I have to agree about the complaint regarding WP speed and the resolution for it. All of these plugins are just a stopgap.

Jeremy: What, open source software get slower? No way! Everyone knows that Firefox 2 is MUCH faster than 1.

Kidding aside, the problem is widespread. Linux has the same issue, look at the latest version of Ubuntu vs. the previous ones. That is why I’m back on Mac. Deleting code just isn’t as glamorous, or as easy, as adding so I guess it isn’t done as much.

How do you reward programmers for the code they don’t write?

And I am glad that it was a compliment, of course, even if it wasn’t I was going to take it as one anyway.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:38:55 +0000

Recliners: Glad that it's moving good for you. Hopefully it will stay that way!

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:27:46 +0000

WP-cache is working fine for me. Then again I’ve manually disabled a lot of the extra crap in WP to speed it up and work with my setup and it wouldn’t surprise me if one of those things made it work correctly.

And yeah they’d have to rewrite a good chunk of WP to get it faster. It is getting much faster in recent versions (even a year ago it ran much slower) – but there is a lot to be desired. The main problem isn’t with too many MySQL queries – the problem is it loads probably 100 files every time it gets executed. That’s actually one big problem I’ve noticed with a lot of open source software – it can get quite bloaty if there aren’t people who do nothing but remove useless code. Basically what they need to do is stop adding new features for one revision and do nothing but optimize it and fix bugs.

Probably the single best way to speed up wordpress – besides using something like Wp-Cache – is to have your host install something to cache your PHP scripts – that’ll keep them from being recompiled every single time someone loads your site.

Ah yes – and Jonathan – the “gory” comment was, indeed, a compliment

By: Will

Will — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:20:48 +0000

I spent time reading the super cache site and blog. From all the assumptions made about how well readers should understand what is written there, I think this plugin is purposely intended for very technical users. It might not ever be made user friendly enough for the rest of us. wp-super cache 2.0 is out and in 3 days there are 175 comments on the post about it! I am not sure I really understand anything that is being said there. Makes you feel like a real novice at this stuff. On the other hand, I think plugins should be made accessible to the masses, not just a few select techies.

They also recommend installing another plugin, called xcache, along with super cache. xcache is a very technical, difficult to comprehend and install plugin also!

I read recently that the number one complaint about WP is slowness. Apparently it can not be addressed because it would involve a complete re-writing of the whole “core”, (whatever that really is), to fix it.

Jeremy – You are using wp-cache on a 2.3.1 install of WP. I have seen that it is problematic on 2.3. Is it working well for you?

By: JB

JB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:48:32 +0000

Jeremy: We talked about that on the podcast some, Chris has had a hosting issue as the provider he was using closed up shop. His Ruby sites are totally borked until he can get new hosting. I'm trying to get him to move in with me here at Media Temple but he doesn't seem to be ready for that phase in our relationship.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:26:58 +0000

Ah yes – what's up with the copyright 2.0 site? Seems like it has been down for a while.