WordPressLapdance.com WordPress Tips and Tricks WordPress has become an incredible publishing platform. And it is always improving and expanding. The features that have been added in the last few years have been amazing. If you used WordPress for any length of time, you will know about all the ways that you can extend WordPress. There are, however, some tips and tricks that the typical user could really benefit from. It’s great to start a blog. Everything is new and exciting. Hopefully, that excitement doesn’t wane. If done right, blogging can be exciting and profitable. You can meet people and learn things you never knew. If your blog garners any popularity at all, however, you will soon find yourself with some problems. The first problem will be with actual bandwidth usage. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain. Your hosting account probably comes with some bandwidth restrictions. Bandwidth is simply the amount of data that you can transmit. If you are serving large files, like mp3s, or you have tons of visitors, you can run out of bandwidth. Now, if this happens, you need to start thinking about how, or if, you serve media files, including images. You will need to learn how to compress media. For images, there is a great plugin called “Smush It” that will optimize your images for you. All you do is activate the plugin and you are off. Another area that you are going to struggle is in outright performance. This will include the PHP scripts …