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I came across a great article that talks about some performance improvements that one can put into place on a WordPress blog. The headline things to look at are:

1. Enable WordPress caching
2. Use a caching plugin like WP Super Cache
3. Minimise the number of high performance plugins
4. Turn on MySQL caching
5. Tweak your PHP settings

Just keep in mind that you don’t need to be looking at these things until you’re receiving hundreds of thousands of hits a day. But it’s good to know in case you notice performance issues on your blog. You don’t need slimming pills to make your blog lean and mean. Just implementing a few tweaks can make a world of a difference. Read the complete article here

Interesting slide presentation down at WordPress.tv that talks about performance considerations for WordPress. I think the main message for most people is that if you’re serving less than half a million page views a day, you probably don’t need to bother too much about performance (that is, unless you’re sharing a server with others who are impacting you). If you are serving more than that than it’s time to crack open the diet pills as you need to make your blog as lean and mean as possible. A number of options are discussed, but I’ll leave you to look through the slides for yourself.