I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years now and this site has gone from a handful of page impressions and dollars per day to around 600k page impressions and $15k per month. In that time I’ve moved hosts a few times, moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server, changed blogging platforms, tried numerous plugins and ad schemes, and the net effect of all my fiddling has been to slow this site down to almost a crawl.
I got tired of being embarrassed about having the slowest site on the block, so I’ve enlisted the help of a server expert who is making a number of changes to my server and theme to optimise my WordPress site to make it faster and also more secure. I’ve asked Chris to keep notes of all the changes he makes so that I can share them with readers in a series of WordPress Masterclass posts, so that you can all benefit from his work.
If you haven’t already subscribed to this site’s RSS feed I’d do so now, as I think these are going to be great set of posts. He’s only been working for a few hours so far, and regular readers can already see the amazing improvements he’s made already. I can’t wait to see how fast he can make my WordPress blog and server.
I’ve also recruited a designer who is working on the next generation of my Eureka theme to make it sleeker, sexier and faster. The mockups he’s produced so far are much closer to the picture I had in my head for how I wanted the site to look, and I think readers will be pleased. It will also be a lot lighter than the current theme, which again should help with site loading times.
Look out for a Eureka theme update and release in the near future!
