Free Training: WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site
This course explains why WordPress site speed matters and teaches you how to measure, diagnose, and fix common performance issues. It covers practical optimization techniques for hosting, media, plugins, databases, and caching to create faster, more efficient websites.
Instructor: Patrick Rauland
Released: 06/22/2021
Length: ~1 hour, 23 minutes
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Advanced
Purpose: To teach you how to optimize WordPress websites for speed and performance by identifying bottlenecks and applying best practices in hosting, media, plugins, databases, and caching.
WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site
This course explains why WordPress site speed matters and teaches you how to measure, diagnose, and fix common performance issues. It covers practical optimization techniques for hosting, media, plugins, databases, and caching to create faster, more efficient websites.
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This course will provide the following:
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. Using Functions
- 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
