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How to speedup wordpress without without changing your website. Not one of my regular deeply technical posts but not any less valueable. You’re probably here because you have a Wordpress based website and are not too impressed with the performance. There are a few approaches to make your content Hyper Fast ;-) use a cache plugin with minimal changes to the site use a cache plugin to build a static version of the site migrate content to a static site generator ( hugo / pelican / jekyll) cache your site in a cdn and purge when you update content Today we are looking into the last one, cache everything at a cdn and purge on updates.

Neat trick to always auto update wordpress and plugins. Pro Tip: You should make regular backups to have something to go back to if the update f*d your site ;-) First we need to change the permissions and ownership of the web dir. # Change Owner and Group to SomeUser and WebServerGroup (ftp-user:www-data) chown -R ftp-user:www-data /path/to/wp # Change folders to 775 find /path/to/wp -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; # files op 664 find /path/to/wp -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; Now we need to set the prefered file access method for wordpress.