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Nate Bedortha
wcpdx
The first talk is @grigs talking about optimizing WordPress.

Slides will be up here: www.slideshare.net 4 months, 3 weeks ago

9 Comments Last message 4 months, 3 weeks ago
- Nate Bedortha
  
  The bottom line is, we're bandwidth gluttons, and we need to stop. 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  Slow sites aren't "green" and how dare you be un-green! Don't you know it's 2009?!!?! 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Kiala Kazebee
  
  But I love my bandwidth. I get it at Walmart because it's cheaper and right next to the nacho cheese. 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  plugins for speed testing/optimization.
  
  1-Firefox:
  a-Firebug
  b-YSlow
  
  2-WordPress:
  a-SQL Monitor (wordpress.org)
  b-WP Super Cache (wordpress.org) 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  Frequently the slowest component is what the browser does after all HTML loads.
  
  Follow Yahoo's 34 Rules for Speeding Up Your Site: developer.yahoo.com 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  GZIP is king. 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  Cache images like it's going out of style. 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  Where are WP hooks into concating & gzipping scripts? 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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- Nate Bedortha
  
  Sprite Me will auto generate sprites & css for you:
  
  spriteme.org 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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