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W E B S I T E S L O W D O W N :Y O U ' R E A H O A R D E R !

Y O U N E E D H E L P

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H E R E A R E F E W O F T H E M O R EC O M M O N H O A R D E R P I L E S

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Active plugins (even inactive plugins for that matter) thathaven't been used in agesDitto that with themesRevisions of every post you have made back to the beginning oftime

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Old caching garbage – especially with certain themes (likeHeadway)Records of online orders from orders placed years agoPending comments

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User accounts for people that only ever needed to log into thesite one timeFeatures inside of any part of WordPress that are enabled butnot being used

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Fortunately, of all of the different things that can cause slowdowns these are the easiest to solve. Just clean house.Before deleting everything, take a backup first.And if you are not sure of what you're doing, bring in a pro.

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I F Y O U ' R E N O T U S I N G I T , D I S A B L E I T .

Shut off active plugins and features (or plugin settings) in yoursite that you always planned to use but never acted on.

Less to manage = less horsepower wasted.

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I F Y O U D O N ' T N E E D I T , D O N ' T K E E P I T .P E R I O D .

Even if it's inactive, your best case scenario is thatit doesn't slow down your site or threaten its security.

And you probably are not living that best case scenario.

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L I M I T P O S T R E V I S I O N S .

Edit your wp-config.php file and pick a comfortable numberof revisions to keep around. How many is up to you,but for most sites, 3-5 revisions is more than enough

and when it comes to speed, less is more.

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C L E A R T H E D A T A B A S E G A R B A G E

You can try WP Optimize as your plugin for cleaning these. Just be careful: if not sure what to delete, don't delete it.

If not sure what the plugin is going to do, don't use it.

( C O M M E N T S , E X P I R E D T R A N S I E N T S , E T C ) .

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D I S A B L E F E A T U R E S Y O U D O N ' T N E E D .

Use Disable Comments pluginif you're not planning to use comments on the site.

Use Disable WooCommerce pluginif you're skipping out on product review or ratings.

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A R C H I V E O R D E L E T E O L D O R D E R S .

Running an e-commerce site?If you don't need old order data around in your site, make sure to

create copies of all of the customer and order data that you doneed and then delete the old orders that you don't need.

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T R I M Y O U R I M A G E S I Z E S .

You can use an image optimizer pluginlike WP Smush to start sizing things down.

Consider downloading all of the images over FTP,use Adobe Photoshop if you have a huge media library,

and re-uploading them via FTP.