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035 – Increase the Performance of Your WordPress Site
 

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On this week’s episode, we continue the discussion about WordPress performance. My good friends Sean and Randy from beAutomated.com join me again as we talk about performance of plugins and themes. I think you might find it surprising that if your website takes too long to load, it will even affect your Google ranking!

Sean and Randy recently released a blog post about this very topic and you can read it now.

Links to topics we discussed:
woorank.com
tools.pingdom.com
loadimpact.com
webpagetest.org

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Linda Bugbee

I love your podcasts. They are informative and inspiring. I am brand new to WordPress, and am at the stage where I am ready to choose a theme. Having listened to episode #35, I want to get a theme that is all about appearance, not functionality. I'm already overwhelmed looking at ThemeForest and tempted to buy a cool theme that has lots of functionality. How can I sort through the morass and find a pure theme?

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dhartzler10 19 pts moderator

Hi Linda,

Boy, that's a tough question. I know that I always purchase the them based on looks, because that's the piece that's hard for me - creating a style from scratch. I can always build in functionality as I need it. I think I would recommend the same. Being new to WordPress, you won't be able to modify theme files like I can; however, you can find tons of plugins out there that will give you the functionality you need.

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Randy Sandberg

Dustin, thank you again for letting us share our knowledge about WordPress performance on your great podcast with your audience. We really had a lot of fun and, as always, look forward to chatting with you, both on and off the air, on future shows.

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  • Hear us on Your Website Engineer Episode 35! | beAutomated says:
    August 3, 2011 at 11:22 am

    [...] Randy and I were return call-in guests on a popular WordPress podcast that aired Aug 3, 2011.