stripped down minimal smallest footprint installation

  • Resolved spinhead

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    4 years, 4 months ago

    I know there are reams of files in a normal WP install that my simple blog will never use. And I have 20+ WP installs on my hosting, so 45mb each is not insignificant.

    Is there a minimum/stripped down/small footprint install guide? Or a list of files I could safely delete if I’m not doing x, y, or z? If I can save 15mb 20 times that’s a big chunk of hosting space freed.

    I have 25+ years of web experience and over a decade with WP so if this needs to get geeky I’m all in.

    * * Contrary opinions about this being necessary are welcome. I’m not looking to waste my time. * *

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by spinhead.
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  • I’d be leery of removing WordPress files as it’s bound to break something sooner or later!

    Updates will probably put back files you did remove overtime rendering all that work pretty much useless anyway… except for the one file you’ll probably need that gets overlooked probably won’t be there when it is needed so that will come back and haunt you at the wrong moment.

    The good news is multisite. Multisite has just one install of WordPress code to run your whole network of WordPress sites… There’s that 20 fold storage savings you’re looking for.

    Here’s an article that covers this very well…

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/create-a-network/

    Hope this helps and you can take your time converting over to multisite while gaining a bit of benefit each time you add a site to the network while removing a big part of that site’s storage load.

    There are also some maintenance time savings as updates will be done once for the network instead of 20 times as needed now. Backups and Security overhead likewise take less total resources.

    Thread Starter spinhead

    (@spinhead)

    Updates will probably put back files

    d’oh. of course they will.

    The good news is multisite

    Yup. Got me some studying to do. Excellent. Thanks.

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