WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site

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Free Online Course: WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site is taught by Patrick Rauland.

Overview
  • Learn how to optimize a typical WordPress site for speed.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Make your WordPress website lightning fast
    • What you should know
    1. Fundamentals of Performance
    • Why speed is important for websites
    • How to check and monitor your speed
    • How websites slow down
    • Static vs. dynamic sites
    2. Hosting
    • Why hosting matters
    • PHP versions
    • Server location
    3. Media
    • Optimize images
    • Install an image optimizing plug-in
    • Use a content delivery network (CDN)
    • Offload audio and video files
    • Use lazy loading
    4. Plugins and Themes
    • Your theme matters
    • Plugins: Quality over quantity
    • Concatenate and minify scripts and styles
    5. Database
    • WordPress database structure
    • Custom database tables
    • Limit post revisions
    6. Caching
    • What is caching?
    • Configuring caching plugins
    • Cache busting
    Conclusion
    • Next steps