Comments for @iamfrankstallone http://iamfrankstallone.com Making the web a better place to live. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:21:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Thank you WP-Engine & WordCamp Philly! by Jason Cohen http://iamfrankstallone.com/thanks-wp-engine/#comment-3 Jason Cohen Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:21:38 +0000 http://frankstallone.wpengine.com/?p=6#comment-3 Thanks for the kind words! Good luck on the new theme. WRT speed, besides the usual recommendations (e.g. async Javascript, small image sizes, not too many objects on the page), don't forget about the tools which are already inside WordPress for making things fast. The #1 thing we see theme designers *not* using is the Transient API. It's an easy way to cache anything that is CPU- or I/O-intensive, like processing images or grabbing content from an external site. The Transient API works on 100% of WordPress installations, and on hosts like WP Engine (but not exclusively us!) it's even faster, backed by things like memcached or APC. Thanks for the kind words! Good luck on the new theme.

WRT speed, besides the usual recommendations (e.g. async Javascript, small image sizes, not too many objects on the page), don’t forget about the tools which are already inside WordPress for making things fast.

The #1 thing we see theme designers *not* using is the Transient API. It’s an easy way to cache anything that is CPU- or I/O-intensive, like processing images or grabbing content from an external site.

The Transient API works on 100% of WordPress installations, and on hosts like WP Engine (but not exclusively us!) it’s even faster, backed by things like memcached or APC.

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