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Speed up WordPress when you have a lot of terms

February 15, 2014 by Thorsten 0 Comments

The autosuggest procedure can slow down your WordPress wp-admin interface quite a lot when you have a huge amount of terms. Sometimes it’s useful to just disable this feature to make wp-admin more responsive. You can do this by adding the following to your functions.php file

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autosuggest, performance, terms

Cache posts in category/tag/taxonomy for better performing content blocks

May 10, 2012 by Thorsten 0 Comments

If you ever needed to grab a bunch of posts from different categories or taxonomies into your theme to fill certain layout blocks with their respective content you’d likely ended up doing a bunch of WP_Query calls with the desired parameters. That’s all nice and works ok, but it causes some additional database queries for […]

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caching, content blocks, optimization, performance, transient, wp_cache

Reducing postmeta queries with update_meta_cache()

November 1, 2011 by Thorsten 4 Comments

Various themes and plugins make heavy use of postmeta data. Usually the way it’s implemented would create one database query for every meta value you request. This can easily pile up and create a huge amount of queries when this is used in a loop. The following snippet added to your themes’ functions.php file should […]

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caching, performance, post meta, postmeta, update_meta_cache

Caching get_posts()

October 5, 2011 by Thorsten 1 Comment

get_posts() is a nice little function and is widely used within themes and plugins, but what most people don’t keep in mind is that there is at least one database query behind each of the calls. With taxonomy,category or meta queries it’s even more, so caching the result of this function can have quite an […]

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advanced-caching, cache incrementor, caching, get_posts, performance

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