WordPress on Plugin Drugs

It's commonly accepted that plugins slow down your WordPress install dramatically. They add extra resources, extra database calls, and lots of extra functionality - all of which adds to your loading time and slows down your site. I've always wanted to test out exactly...

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The Process of Building a WordPress Site

WordPress has really taken the development world by storm in the last 5 or so years. It's grown from a relatively small blogging platform to one of the most versatile and easy to access content management software in the world. Its capabilities, flexibility,...

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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

While we were building our new site, we noticed that the site got slower and slower as we added the necessary functionality. This is a common problem with Wordpress because the more you tap into it's true potential and begin adding plugins, custom post types, page...

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WordPress Customizability

Wordpress used to be a platform almost exclusively for blogging and had little functionality beyond slinging words. It's exactly the opposite today. Today, Wordpress is one of the most customizable and flexible platforms in the world - and that's exactly why you...

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Why should I database drive my website?

We came across an interesting customer this morning who had more than 1000 pages of static html.  As we started talking we found that this was over the timespan of 10 years that this had grown.  That obviously breaks down to 100 pages, which depending on your...

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