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WordPress autoloaded options: how to find what is loading on every page, and fix it
Every request starts by loading every wp_options row marked autoload into memory. On a healthy site that's a few hundred kilobytes. On most sites I open, it's megabytes of leftovers. How to measure it, read the list, find who is writing it, and clean it without breaking anything.
Speed 12 min
Why wp-admin is slow when the front end is fine, and how to fix it
The site loads fast for visitors but the dashboard takes eight seconds and saving a post feels like dial-up. That gap has a short list of causes, none of which a caching plugin can reach. Here they are, with the check for each.
Speed 6 min