Auch Themes können Server lahmlegen

Es sind nicht nur die Plugins, die eine WordPress-Installation lahmlegen können. Es kann auch das Theme selbst sein.

Every visit to that blog post was generating 47 server requests. 36 of those were for images. This is beyond extreme. The requests were also for CSS and javascripts; all the typical things I’d expect to see. But I couldn’t believe that the theme linked to that many individual files. This is a huge issue (…) it’s very important to reduce the number of external files required by a web page. No amount of server caching and optimization can help a site designed like this.

Das Theme, das den Server scheinbar zum Erliegen gebracht hat, war “News” von Justin Tadlock. Da er eine Autorität auf dem Gebiet und selbst stark ins WordPress-Development involviert ist, bin ich schon auf sein Statement hierzu gespannt.

Warum Justin Tadlock das Hybrid-Framework programmiert hat

Justin Tadlock erklärt, warum er das hervorragende Hybrid-Theme-Framework gecoded hat.

I’ve never used a theme on my blog that I’ve publicly released before. Prior to Hybrid, I hardcoded just about everything around here. At a certain point, that becomes frustrating. So, when I started working on it, my goal was to make a theme for me, Justin Tadlock. I needed a theme that I could easily use out of the box, something that would cover all my needs.

I needed something that I wouldn’t have to hack up to make it work how I wanted.