2 responses on “Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy: Caching in WordPress

  1. Diego's avatar Diego

    Cool video, really useful information.

    Please, get that guy some cough drops!

  2. Daniel Collis-Puro's avatar Daniel Collis-Puro

    Huh. I don’t know why you’d throw nginx in front of varnish. nginx can handle output caching (with multiple backends – memcached, files, etc) just fine.

    Here’s the plugin I wrote to use nginx as a frontend cache, along with our experience using it on blogs.law.harvard.edu.

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Published

July 10, 2010

You want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able to handle increases in traffic. WordPress’ output and object caching are there to help everyone realize these goals. This talk from Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy cover the differences and interactions between these two types of caching, benchmarks of common caching plugins, and tips for ensuring your themes and plugins are taking advantage of caching.

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WordCamp Boulder 2010 9

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Chris Scott 1

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caching 30
configuration 15
Development 418
optimization 61
Plugins 344
speed 25
Themes 279
WordPress.org 405

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English 11401

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