It is always nerve wracking when Wordpress needs to be updated. In fact, I just updated from Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5.1. This time, I used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin to perform the upgrade and it was indeed a treat. While it used to take me 30 minutes or more to manually update Wordpress, this time only took 15 minutes or so. There was a slight learning curve but now that is done, future updates should take no more than 10 minutes. The update process was fairly painless and the step-by-step instructions were easy to follow. Nicely done Keith Dsouza. After the dust settled and all plugins were reactivated, I noticed the query load time of this blog’s home page more than doubled from when it was running 2.3. Something in 2.5.1 was causing this page load increase and I was not about to let it go.
After some research, it turns out that gzip (the option to compress page content for browsers that support compression) was removed in version 2.5 and that was the cause for the increased load times. I used a simple tag to measure query load times on this blog. The following line of code was placed just before the
I’m glad to hear the GZip plugin has bee helpful to you. I’ve noticed similar results in my own use.
Hi Austin,
Thanks for dropping by. It’s great that you took the time to create and publish the gzip plugin for Wordpress. Would you mind commenting about it so others who want more info can get it straight from the creator? Thanks again for putting out this cool plugin.
Most modern browsers accept gzipped–i.e. compressed–webpages, and this plugin takes advantage of that. WordPress used to offer this as a core feature, but because gzipping apparently caused problems with some people’s server configurations, the lead developers of WordPress decided that it was not worth maintaining.
Thanks for providing information on gzip plugin for wordpress. Keep posting.
Thanks for extra info Austin. That’s great. It will help others who are also looking to implement the gzip function in Wordpress again.
I agree that WP 2.5 is great. The features has becoming more convenient for users. But sadly i need to downgrade it to 2.3 because my database couldn’t work with it. Wish someone could help me on this.
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I has enable it but i see not speed up any percent. Who can help me?
how can i install it. i need to use it.
Hey great plugin bud. Installed it on my antique and vintage collectibles ecommerce site http://ogdenlane.com and really noticed an increase in page loading. This is just what I’d been looking to help for a while. Thanks!