Improve Speed and Overall Performance for Your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress application is a content management system widely used at this moment for blogging or other purposes. It can be extended through plugins which are available for free download.

When your website has a heavy web traffic, the MySQL database will support multiple queries which at a given moment will determine the loss of web pages downloading speed on visitors' web browsers.

In order to prevent this situation, there are a few plugins that will help you improve the page loading speed and overall performance of your WordPress blog. WP-Cache plugin caches the pages and when visitors request the cached pages, it will serve them without making database queries.

But a more powerful plugin, WP Super Cache will create static HTML pages and will avoid the loading of PHP and as a consequence the server will be able to send hundred thousands of pages in a few minutes without errors.

In order to install and run this plugin, you must have Apache mod_rewrite, mod_mime and fancy permalinks enabled. You must just follow the instructions provided in the WP Super Cache distribution package and the installation process should finalize without errors.

All necesarry files are created automatically, but depending on your web server configuration it is possible to edit some of them manually. After you unpack the WP Super Cache archive in the plugins folder, copy wp-cache-config-sample.php to wp-content directory. Then, save the content of the file wp-cache-phase1.php as advanced-cache.php in the same directory. Now you are ready to activate and configure WP Super Cache plugin.

From the WP Super Cache Manager window you can specify various options: Super Cache Compression, Expiry Time, accepted file names and more. You will also be able to see the cached files and to restore the default configuration in any moment. WP Super Cache plugin will help you improve your visitors' experience and will also reduce your bandwidth consumption by generating static HTML content.