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Here I show my love for WordPress and everything I know about it. The news around the world about WordPress from the bloggers in the blogosphere, WP developers, theme designers and plugin programmers.

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Top 4 WordPress Optimization Steps for Speed

Antti Kokkonen, Jul 04, 2010 (updated Mar 28, 2011)

See how four simple steps makes it easy to speed up WordPress in order to retain readers and ensure the search engines don’t punish your blog for being slow.

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Tags: Optimization, Speed up WordPress, WordPress Speed Challenge

How to Analyze the Performance of a WordPress Blog

Antti Kokkonen, Jun 30, 2010 (updated Nov 19, 2010)

The first step of the WordPress Speed Challenge is to analyze the blogs performance before doing optimization and write the results down for later comparison.

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Tags: Page Speed, Performance, WordPress Speed Challenge, YSlow

10 Best and Most Essential Tools for WordPress Bloggers

Antti Kokkonen, Jun 28, 2010 (updated Jul 09, 2010)

WordPress blogger’s must-have tools: 10 Tools for analyzing performance, editing text files and images, optimizing images and transferring files and images

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Tags: Free Tools, Tools, Web Design, Web development, WordPress Speed Challenge

WordPress Speed Challenge – Make your WordPress blog faster!

Antti Kokkonen, Jun 25, 2010 (updated Jul 12, 2010)

The WordPress Speed Challenge is a series of posts & steps that help you speed up your WordPress blog. Say no to slow – Make your WordPress blog faster!

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Tags: Announcement, Optimization, WordPress speed, WordPress Speed Challenge

How many “must-have” WordPress plugins can there be?

Antti Kokkonen, May 31, 2010 (updated Nov 01, 2010)

An essential WordPress plugin is a plugin that you must and want to install to each and every WordPress blog. In all honesty, the list should not be very long

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Tags: Plugins, Top Lists, WordPress

Speed Up WordPress – Even on a Shared Hosting!

Antti Kokkonen, May 28, 2010 (updated Oct 26, 2010)

Is it possible to have a fast WordPress blog on a shared hosting? Yes – here’s the video proof of what’s possible when you speed up WordPress like a ninja.

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Tags: Optimization, Site speed, Speed up WordPress, Video, WordPress, WordPress speed

Optimized Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code

Antti Kokkonen, May 22, 2010 (updated Jul 13, 2010)

Use Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code to speed up your site. Use this optimized, minified and compressed async analytics snippet for maximum impact

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Tags: Analytics, Optimization, Site speed, Source Code, Tracking