Eps 17: Optimizing WordPress – Talking HTML

WordPress Optimization
Welcome to Talking HTML, an audio/video internet thing for web developers who are just starting out
Child Themify WordPress Plugin

allows for easy coding without actually changing the original theme
starts with only the css file but you can add any file that you want.

robots.txt

the code for this file is in the show notes
makes your site more accessible to search engine crawling/indexing
if you use google dev tools you can see what your website looks like when it’s crawled by the google wizards. 1 of my sites looked completely broken. The images weren’t showing up and the content was a bit misplaced. When I added the robots.txt file and looked at it again the site looked as it should. Images were there and it looked like a complete website.

P3 Profiler WordPress plugin by GoDaddy, the hosting company

several different breakdowns of page load speed and how fast your plugins are loading

Optimize your images

Stay away from pngs if you can help it
use JPG, smaller file size by default. Can be optimized in Photoshop to become smaller

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