A mutual friend turned me on to a video presentation by Frederick Townes, CTO of Mashable and founder of W3 Edge, given at Wordcamp in Denmark in May of this year. The message can be summed in one phrase: WordPress is nice, it’s easy, but if your livelihood depends on it, you better get to know how to configure it or your site’s performance will be average to poor.
This is 104 minutes long. Fred’s presentation is complete in 40 minutes, but the Q&A afterward is worth the watch. And the slides offer very, very valuable links to measurement sites, plugins, and code samples. Be sure to download those!
Fred has learned a lot in the 13 years I have known him, much of it driven by a desire to know how to optimize the Web experience. He is well worth following on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Well that was well worth the time devoted to listening and taking a few notes. Thanks for pointing it out Steve.