WordPress is a powerful and very flexible CMS that helps to develop highly dynamic and user friendly websites. It incorporates a number of useful features in a site and helps it to perform better. This is the reason why most of the website owners are going for CMS web development, and specially towards WordPress based website. However, without good load speed, a site is good for nothing. Discussed below are some of the tips to speed up a WordPress based website.

• Always keep the site up to date with the latest releases. It is very important. This is because with every update, the performance is enhanced to a great degree. The updates are released to include more advanced and better features. Therefore, one must always keep the site up to date.

Same rule applies to WordPress plug-ins. It is very important to stay up to date with the latest versions. New plug-ins re released to introduce the modified code in order to make the plug-in better. Therefore, it is in your best interest to keep yourself updated with the latest releases.

• Disable or delete the unused plug-ins. One of the biggest reasons behind slowing down of a WordPress site is the presence of unused plug-ins. Depending on the type of plug-in, they can have tons of script and code. So if you do not want a particular plug-in, it is best to disable it or even delete it. It is better to decide beforehand which plug-in is required for your site to run. This will help you to eliminate the unwanted plug-ins.

• Do clean up the code. It is the code that makes a site run, it is imperative to optimize it. This can really do wonders and can improve the load time considerably. Some of the ways to clean up the code and make the site load faster are discussed below.

-Decrease Whitespace: Whitespace is the space used in the code. Some of the coders like to use a lot of whitespace (indented tabs, line breaks etc) in order to provide better readability and good organization. However, decreasing whitespace can really help in speeding up the load time of a site as it shaves off the extra bytes off the total size.

-Use external scripts: It is better to use external scripts in the header.php file in place of tons of code. This helps the browser to cache the script and saves it from reading every other page.

• Minimize PHP and database queries. This is because if the browser has to execute any PHP query each time a page is loaded, it will only add to the load time. Replace PHP queries with static HTML.

These are the most common tips shared by wordpress developers, and believe it or not these small and basic tips increase speed tremendously