Speeding Up WordPress: 2.0

A couple of weeks ago I ran a series of posts on Shout about making WordPress run faster. We explored concepts like caching, CDNs; the usual. I always felt the series never really got off the ground and wasn’t suited to small posts, hence I embarked on writing what I thought would be WPShout’s first eBook!

Roughly 2,500 words later, I submitted the eBook to the Tuts+ Marketplace, expecting to see the eBook online within a couple of days. They rejected the article, citing “similar quality [articles] are easily available for free elsewhere”, presumably at sites like mine.

I then emailed Vitaly Friedman, editor of Smashing Magazine and offered him the eBook as an article. Skip forward a couple of weeks and a couple of edits, and you can now read what was going to be WPShout’s first eBook on Noupe.com!

Speeding Up WordPress is an article/video screencast combo that takes all the themes we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks but really expands them further into a comprehensive guide.

I’m biased as I wrote it, but I’d thoroughly recommend you have a read.

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About the author

Hello, I'm Alex! WPShout is my collection of WordPress tutorials which I started 4 years ago, just before my 16th birthday. If you need someone to make you WordPress screencasts or documentation for your product or service, get in touch — I'll be able to help you out. You should also follow me on Twitter :)

3 Comments

  • Daniel
    on May 26, 2011
    at 12:19 pm

    You really shouldn’t call it “Speeding up WordPress 2.0” because it’s not WordPress version 2.0 you’re speeding up and names ending in 2.0 are kinda lame. Just my humble opinion.

    • Alex Denning
      on May 26, 2011
      at 12:23 pm

      It’s tongue-in-cheek, so lame names will have to do.

      • Daniel
        on May 26, 2011
        at 12:28 pm

        Name is (very) confusing. The reason I clicked on it was because at least 3 people tweeted it and I said “Who the heck would write now an article about optimizing WP 2.x?”