Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy: Caching in WordPress
You want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able to handle increases in traffic. WordPress’ output and object caching are there to help everyone realize these goals. This talk from Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy cover the differences and interactions between these two types of caching, benchmarks of common caching plugins, and tips for ensuring your themes and plugins are taking advantage of caching.
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2 responses to “Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy: Caching in WordPress”
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Cool video, really useful information.
Please, get that guy some cough drops!
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Huh. I don’t know why you’d throw nginx in front of varnish. nginx can handle output caching (with multiple backends – memcached, files, etc) just fine.
Here’s the plugin I wrote to use nginx as a frontend cache, along with our experience using it on blogs.law.harvard.edu.
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July 10, 2010
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