Comments on: GZip Compression and Wordpress

By: rick

rick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:55:37 +0000

Thanks Hunter…glad to eliminate the need for one more plugin.

By: Anant Shrivastava

Anant Shrivastava — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:41:34 +0000

thanks hunter for this info i didn’t knew about this and direct option was not visible in wordpress hence went the plugin way.

thanks for reducing one more hook for my wordpress install.

By: Raju

Raju — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:15:31 +0000

Wow!! I never knew this! May be I should try playing around this on my other (smaller) sites, not sure if it has some side-effects. Thanks Hunter!

By: Hunter Satterwhite

Hunter Satterwhite — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:44 +0000

Actually you don’t need a plugin to enable GZip Compression for WordPress. Simply do the following:

1. Login to your WordPress install as admin
2. navigate to http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.php
3. Scroll down to “gzipcompression” and change it’s field value to 1, which tells WordPress “true” for GZip Compression.
4. Click Save.

/wp-admin/options.php is “semi-hidden” options screen that will give you a break down of all definable options in your WordPress install. Some fields are editable and some or not for good reason.

Hope this helps!

By: Anant Shrivastava

Anant Shrivastava — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:16:43 +0000

those who don’t feel like enbling wp-super-cache

check : http://ilfilosofo.com/blog/2008/02/22/wordpress-gzip-plugin/

hope that helps.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:17:30 +0000

Hey buddy thanks for your article but I didn’t feel i got to learn how to do this. I couldn’t use Wp Suer Cache as it messed with my .htaccess too much and then it wouldn’t work. I now use Hyper Cache but it doesn;t seem to enable gzip at least not according to Google Webmaster tools. Can you guide me to doing this. I’m with hostgator on shared hosting. I will subscribe to this comment. Hope to hear back soon. THanks very much. Mark

By: Morgan Cheng

Morgan Cheng — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:28:12 +0000

I once has concern that download time reduction might not deserver CPU consumption time.

I did some experimentation with Debug Queries plugin. It shows that CPU time is always small fraction time of page load cycle. So, we’d better have gzip enabled.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:25:02 +0000

Hi
Just took a look in my Google Webmaster Tools and spotted that it now gives you data on page load times.
All of my html sites are super fast… my Wordpress site is super slow.
So Im looking for ways to speed it up… hence finding this post.

I read somewhere that Google uses page load speed as one of its pagerank metrics. So I have to improve the page speed.

Looks like I might be uploading the super-cache plugin!

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:35:53 +0000

I’m doing my research on Optimizing Wordpres and many people has written about gZip. though many people prefer other techniques and before implementing gZip into my blog, I wanna see..what other users review are saying…

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:41:11 +0000

I strongly support your suggestion for enabling the transfer of compressed data. Most of the current browsers do support gzip and I don’t find any reason why it shouldn’t be a part of wordpress core library code.