How to optimize WordPress themes? 10 tips for improvement

How to optimize WordPress themes? The following article will introduce you to 10 tips for improving WordPress themes. I hope it will be helpful to you!

Nowadays, many friends use WordPress to build blogs. After installing WordPress, many new users try to search and download some very personalized themes online, while few users use the WordPress default theme. In fact, no matter whether the WordPress theme you use is paid or free, there are still many areas that need improvement. The following WordPress theme suggestions cover basic customization tips, styling and optimization methods

1. Reduce image size

In every WordPress theme Images all play an important role, but unfortunately many theme developers forget to optimize them. The images include CSS background images, template logos, default images, small icons, etc.

Optimizing images can save your bandwidth consumption and improve page response time for your blog readers. Take PhotoShop CS3 as an example, the menu bar "File" - "Save for Web and Devices" can optimize pictures for the Web. Usually what I do is keep reducing the quality of the image until I see a noticeable change in color or quality.

In addition, you can also use a lossless image optimization tool like Smush.it. This tool can compress the image size while ensuring the image quality. There are two ways to use it:

• Click in sequence "UPLOADER" - "Select Files and Smush", select the local image to be compressed, and finally click on the image name of the compression result to download
• Click "URL", enter the URL address of the image, and submit Start compressing

2. Use a personalized Favicon

Some WordPress themes do not come with A default favicon (the icon can mark a website, you can see it in the browser tab and the browser's URL bar). The following figure represents the favicon icon used by this blog, an if

If a website does not have a favicon icon, it will give people an unprofessional feeling. For this reason, make sure your WordPress theme contains a favicon icon. Setting the favicon icon is actually very simple. Just upload a favicon.ico icon file to the root directory of the website. If your host does not support this method, you can also reference it in the WordPress theme. Open header.php in the theme directory and add the following code before (remember to change favicon.ico in the following code to Your icon URL):

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

3. Stylized Image Description

When you upload an image and insert it into an article, you should Add a picture description to it to describe it. Note: The picture description is the descriptive text of the picture. Edit the article in the WordPress background and there are some options after uploading the picture. The second title in the picture below is the descriptive text of the picture:

Every good WordPress theme should include a default style for image descriptions. To style the default image descriptions, you can add .wp-caption## to the theme’s style.css. # kind. The following is the CSS code for styling the image description. You can refer to it (using some CSS 3 properties):

.wp-caption {
  background-color: #f3f3f3;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  -khtml-border-radius: 3px;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px; /* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
  margin: 10px;
  padding-top: 4px;
  text-align: center;
}
.wp-caption img {
  border: 0 none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
  font-size: 11px;
  line-height: 17px;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 4px 5px;
}

4. Use PHP’s Flush

flush() function in the theme header , can speed up your WordPress blog. The operation is also very simple. Open header.php in the theme directory and add the following code after :

<?php flush(); ?>

.post {
  padding-top:3px;
  padding-right:10px;
  padding-bottom:5px;
  padding-left:2px;
}

.post { padding: 3px 10px 5px 2px; }

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>" />

<?php remove_action(&#39;wp_head&#39;, &#39;wp_generator&#39;); ?>

add_filter('login_errors', create_function('$a', "return null;"));

bloginfo('name');

echo '露兜博客';

bloginfo('stylesheet_url');

echo 'http://example.com/wp-content/themes/themename/style.css';

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