At WordCamps Karlsruhe and Netherlands, I held a talk about speeding up a Website with 500’000 attachments. This workshop is a follow up and a hands on session for that talk(*). I covered how to speed up a really slow site, that took 40s or longer to save a single post.
In this workshop I want to work with you on your sites, and give you the tools to profile your pages, understand what you can fix, fix as much as we can in 80 minutes.
I want to focus entirely on code/backend code. So we will not install a caching plugin, we will not scale your hardware.
Things that we will cover:
- Using debugging plugins – Query Monitor, Debug Bar
- Using profiling tools – xhprof
- Using and understanding caching mechanism
- Creating a custom table
- Creating custom queries using posts_clauses
and more
Requirements:
- IDE of your choice
- docker and DDEV installed locally on your machine
- A git client
I will provide a repository with a dummy project, but you can as well participate using your own project.
Join me for a deep dive into the techniques and strategies we used to dramatically improve the site’s performance. You’ll walk away with actionable insights and practical tips to speed up your own site!
*) It will help if you watch the talk beforehand, I will cover and explain all steps that we will do in the workshop.