new magazine theme is quite slow – any tips on common reasons?

  • I’m new to wordpress and have just finished a custom magazine theme for a professional association. The theme has about 9 custom blocks next to the list of 10 most current posts, including things like “most recent event/job opening/advice column/specialist article/…”. Load times are quite long and I don’t know why. Could it be that doing so many loops is a big no-no? What are the most common reasons for slow loading? Anyone have any general tips for me as a newbie on this? I’d be grateful.

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  • If you did not download the theme but designed the theme, post a sample query so we can see if you are you limiting the number of posts returned?

    Other “things to do”
    Make the website live, in a test site if possible.

    1.
    Run the website through the validator and correct any html errors.

    2.
    Use Pingdom Tools and look for any timeline bottlenecks, there could be a plugin or bad links causing a slow load, I had one plugin that took five seconds to load.

    3.

    As the pages are dynamic try a cache plugin, there are a few:

    Simple Cache Plugins
    if you are doing a lot of reads then db-cache-reloaded might help as it will cache queries.

    I use quick cache, works very well, but it is not to good with updates, as I wind up having to ftp the files to the plugin directory, not stable enough for a customers website.

    Bigger Plugins
    Other popular one’s are wp-super-cache and w3-total-cache

    HTH

    David

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