Speed Up Posting to Wordpress
When I hit my “Press it” shortcut, I’m often frustrated by how long it takes for the Wordpress Admin section to load. Okay, I’m impatient. It’s only around 4.6 seconds on average but seeing as I often post from home and the installation is on my home server, there should be zero latency. Where’s the delay?
Looking closer at the problem, I realised that the culprit was the section of Dashboard that loads in headlines (and the most recent post?) from the blogs of Wordpress developers.
The file to edit is wordpress/wp-admin/index.php and the section that controls this is the part that begins <div id="planetnews"> (line 129 on a default installation of Wordpress 1.5.2) up to and including the closing </div> (line 141).
One quick edit later deleting the entire section and Dashboard loads in 0.48 seconds. Much better. Now for every 1000 posts I make, I’ll save myself an hour… I’ll be the first to admit, it’s not a productivity hack but it does makes Wordpress feel more responsive and more pleasant to use.
October 4th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Tim,
Just a heads up. You probably have done this by design but just in case you’re trackbacks are not working. I’ve linked to this article on my homepage in the asides section.
October 4th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Cheers Corey - I’ll look into that later. They *should* be working so I’ve clearly screwed something up somewhere. Thanks for the link in Asides too!
June 27th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Great, 2 seconds less
still works in 2.2.1
July 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Hey, every second counts