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I just found a cool WordPress plugin to help improve the performance of WordPress blogs - Use Google Libraries.

WordPress uses some JavaScript libraries, like jQuery and script.aculo.us.  Google hosts copies of some JavaScript libraries on their AJAX Libraries API.  What the plugin does is make WordPress use the copies of the libraries hosted by Google instead of the ones bundled with WordPress.  The advantage of this is that it:

  • increases the chance that a user already has these files cached
  • takes load off your server
  • uses compressed versions of the libraries (where available)
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This entry was posted by Mr.Wizard on 2008-11-28 at 5:17 pm under blogging. Tagged , , , , , , , . You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  • Jure Cuhalev
    You do realize that your page is not using any of the stated libraries and that this plugin is marginally useful only for the person writing, that is going to have their own wp-admin cached anyway? :-)

    It's a cool plugin though for more complex WP themes.
  • Uh no, I hadn't realized that - my PHP is closer to the "hello world" stage, so I didn't know what WordPress would be using those JavaScript libraries for - I'd assumed the plugin was intended to give a general speedup

    Thanks your comment :)
  • Thanks for mentioning the plugin. It's not a bad thing to "set and forget" because any given plugin may pull in those libraries (and if you write on multiple wordpress based blogs it is handy to have it pre-cached for the admin).
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