{"id":5032,"date":"2012-09-09T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=5032"},"modified":"2012-11-21T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T10:28:22","slug":"optimizing-wordpress-on-the-frontend","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/session\/optimizing-wordpress-on-the-frontend\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing WordPress on the frontend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a great CMS, but start adding plugins, use a big custom theme with lots of built in options and before you know it, you\u2019re loading 10+ javascript libraries and files, 4 or 5 stylesheets, custom fonts, etc. These all play a massive role on how quickly your site loads, and has an effect on your viewers\/users, search engines and your hosting infrastructure. The aim of this talk is to take you through some optimization methods, plugins that you can use, as well as where to find and fix problem areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/session\/optimizing-wordpress-on-the-frontend\/\">Optimizing WordPress on the frontend<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 14:25 \u2013 14:50<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/byron-rode\/\">Speaker Spotlight<\/a><a class=\"standard-icon social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/about\/schedule\/\">Schedule<\/a> <a class=\"facebook-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/byronrodephotography\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"googleplus-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110145123835503094938\/posts\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"twitter-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byronrode\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"linkedin-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/byronrode\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wearetangram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tangram<\/a> <a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/byronrode\" target=\"_blank\">Github<\/a> <a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/715273\/byron-rode\" target=\"_blank\">Stack Overflow<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.stackexchange.com\/users\/5903\/byronrode\" target=\"_blank\">WP stack exchange<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a great CMS, but start adding plugins, use a big custom theme with lots of built in options and before you know it, you\u2019re loading 10+ javascript libraries and files, 4 or 5 stylesheets, custom fonts, etc. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/session\/optimizing-wordpress-on-the-frontend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Optimizing WordPress on the frontend<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":0,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[3084],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[39706],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-5032","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-main-track"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qrmL-1ja","session_date_time":{"date":"","time":""},"session_speakers":[{"id":"3084","slug":"byron-rode","name":"Byron Rode","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/byron-rode\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5032\/revisions\/6811"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}