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2026-08-19• 5 min read

Speeding Up a Slow WordPress Site: The Order I Actually Work In

'Our site is slow, can you look at it?' is one of the most common requests I get. Almost every single time, the fix is the exact same handful of things in the exact same order. Server-side first, frontend plugins absolutely last.

WordPress Performance Caching

2026-07-22• 5 min read

Databases

Redis as a Cache vs Redis as a Database

Redis usually gets introduced as 'just a cache.' A year later it is holding session data, rate-limit counters, and critical queues. The instance never changed, but its job did. Its configuration absolutely must change with it.

Redis Caching Databases