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How To Clean Up & Optimize Your WordPress Install. WordPress is a pretty robust application that is kept up to date with regular bug fixes and security patches, but it really benefits from a bit of maintenance to keep it running fast and efficiently. Over time WordPress saves snippets of information to its database, which can become bloated with unnecessary values, thus slowing down your site and putting more stress on your server setup.

In this post we’ll look at 10 ways you can give your WordPress install a spring clean to trim the fat and put everything in its place. Hopefully you will already have some kind of database backup system in place. If not, your entire site is at a serious risk of being completely lost. There are lots of plugins available that not only make backups on command, but can also be set to take scheduled backups and send them to your email account. I recommend WP-DBManager for its combination of useful abilities. Define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false ); Digging into WordPress. Wordpress Style | Temi, Plugin e Tutorial per Wordpress. How to write a WordPress plugin that I’ll use.

I tend to be very fastidious about the WordPress plugins that I’ll install. I’ll often write my own simple version of a plugin rather than install one from someone else that does a bunch of stuff I don’t need. Here is my philosophy behind writing WordPress plugins, best witnessed through the plugins I’ve written lately, like Markdown on Save, Login Logo, Monitor Pages, and WP Help.

Fewer features as a feature There are diminishing returns as you add features. That is, the more you add, the more likely you’re adding something that X % of your plugin’s users won’t ever use. Code the hell out of it The best part of starting small is that you can code the hell out of the plugin. Reduce UI If you can do without UI, don’t make it. Code it for the future Don’t use deprecated APIs. Secure it Writing secure WordPress plugins isn’t hard. Like this: Like Loading...