WordPress Ideas » Topic: WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!

Ipstenu on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

Ipstenu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:21:14 +0000

Problem with that, posido, is that the vast majority of shared hosts don't let you play with the Apache server config, so you can't. I would hazard a guess most .org folks are still on shared :)

posido on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

posido — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:36:54 +0000

It is a good suggestion. But best solution to stop needless requests to .htaccess file is to avoid using it.
You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access to apache server config file. Using .htaccess files slows down the apache server. Any directive that you can include in a .htaccess file is better set in a <Directory> block, as it will have the same effect with better performance.

ellewoodward on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

ellewoodward — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:45:06 +0000

Wow this worked great! Thank you so much everyone!

jeffatrackaid on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

jeffatrackaid — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:48:03 +0000

Do you know if there are any benchmarks for this modification? While in theory it is smarter programming, in practice I am not sure it would make much difference.

pmu on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

pmu — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:54:17 +0000

That is a good script i modified my htaccess and it is work . I was a bit afraid becaus the htaccess is very important so make a copy before to modife it ;-)

g1smd on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

g1smd — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:36:29 +0000

Forum conversation: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-efficient-rewrite-rules

New patch: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16670

g1smd on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

g1smd — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:06:30 +0000

The same inefficiencies mentioned above are also present in Joomla, but the patch to fix Joomla has recently been committed.

One of the many conversations at WebmasterWorld with details of the Wordpress problem and the solution: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/4053973.htm
A more recent post: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/4182512.htm

This topic comes up at least once per month for the last 4 or 5 years.

Kaushik on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

Kaushik — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:23:24 +0000

I am glad this is under consideration; in fact, the page load times should be seriously looked upon specially when there is a mention about Google's search algorithm.

Whey Protein Supplements on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

Whey Protein Supplements — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:07:03 +0000

Does anybody have any verification that this new code brings substantial (or any, come to think of it) improvement in load times?

dipswitch on "WordPress Performance Improvement that does NOT require a plugin... Simple fix!"

dipswitch — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:14:35 +0000

Why use mod_rewrite at all if you have mod_dir? All you need is this directive:

FallbackResource /index.php

This is similar to the try_files directive in nginx. Thank me later ;)