20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 20: Wordpress has no Cache
Wordpress is a great blogging platform and Content Management System, but I’ve read many times now each time a user hits one of your blog pages the database is queried up to 20 times (even if none of the content has changed since the last visit). Imagine what happens if your blog gets 1,000 unique users per day, or 10,000? Wordpress has no Cache, but to solve this problem the WP-Cache plugin (or WP-Cache 2 now) was created. It creates a static HTML web page version of all your Wordpress pages and “expires” them regularly for a new version - which takes the “database query” factor out of the equation when it comes to problems serving large amount of traffic and visitors through your Wordpress blog. However, it’s recently come to my attention that WP-Super Cache works much better than WP-Cache, primarily because it doesn’t invoke PHP each time a static page is served. It boasts serving in excess of 250,000 cached pages per day. I highly recommend you read my post Wordpress Hack #13: Traffic Proofing Wordpress to read about other issues you should consider when using a Wordpress caching plugin (like statistics or counting plugins being off), including fixes for some of them.
Also - as a side note, if you are an ‘advanced’ Wordpress user - you may want to read Wordpress 2.5 and the Object Cache.
As always - if you have a question, or something to add to this (20 page) article - please comment now below!
I would also recommend you take a look at my series 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days, and Managing Wordpress More Effectively.
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This post has multiple pages...
- Page 1: Wordpress Has No Breadcrumbs
- Page 2 - Wordpress has no Contact Form
- Page 3 - Most Wordpress Themes have no Archive Index
- Page 4 - Wordpress Has No Built In Stats
- Page 5 - Wordpress Has No Sitemap
- Page 6 - Wordpress Has no Database Tools
- Page 7 - Wordpress Has No Voting or Polls Tools
- Page 8 - Wordpress has no "Related Posts" Mechanism
- Page 9 - You Can't Reply to Comments Without Visiting Post Page
- Page 10 - Wordpress Comments are "nofollowed" by default
- Page 11 - Wordpress Has No Way to Append or Add Content to Your RSS Feed
- Page 12 - Wordpress Has No Way to Enforce URL Preference
- Page 13 - Wordpress Has No Mechanism for Adding Code to Posts
- Page 14 - Wordpress Has No Way to Control Meta Tags or Titles for SEO
- Page 15 - Wordpress Doesn't Log or Notify 404 Not Found Errors
- Page 16 - Wordpress Doesn't Log What People Search For
- Page 17 - Wordpress Has No Built-In Translation Capabilities
- Page 18 - Wordpress Has no Built In Advertising Mechanism
- Page 19 - Wordpress Has No Monetization Abilities Built-In
- Page 20 - Wordpress Has No Cache
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May 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
You really hit the nail on the head with this post…or 20 nails…
The funny thing is that everything you talked about here - are all things that i use on every blog. The comment form, the 2 sitemaps, the search log, some kind of stats, super cache, etc.
I’ve often wondered why a lot of these things don’t get built in.
Looks like the feed notations on commentluv didn’t work. delete the other one please.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Great resource you have compiled here. I think most people are aware of about half of these problems and the plugins to fix them, but this lays it all out.
Thanks!
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