Category: Optimization tips

Appthemes themes and Wordpress can sometimes cause high performance CPU usage on hosting servers, so here I will give you some tips on how to speed up your Classipress installation.

Disable revisions

To gain some more speed out of your Classipress installation you should disable WordPress Revisions. What is the benefit of disabling revisions? You’s database will be smaller and faster! Classipress doesn’t use Revisions. When...

Disable WordPress cron job

To gain some more speed out of your Classipress installation you should disable WordPress Cron Job. Why is cron job causing high CPU and SQL usage on my Classipress installation? Well, it’s like this....

Delete old data from statistics table

Some tables in Classipress installation can become huge after some time. Here is a PHP script on how to delete old data from statistics table. There is a table called wp_cp_ad_pop_daily which stores daily...

Switch off counters on front page

Classipress has 3 positions where you can show number of ads per categories. Two of them represent huge impact on SQL server. Here are my recommendations: Search Drop-down Options Show Ad Count – OFF...

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Remove ad hits counter on front page

Showing ad hits on ad listing can slow down your site and drastically increase processor usage when reading this data from database, because this data is not stored aggregated in a database. This feature...

Remove Gravatar images when looping ads

You might know it or not, but Gravatars on your Classipress site slow down loading of your site. The case here is that with default settings Classipress will load 30 posts on front page...