The WordPress Speed and Security Manual

📚 What's inside this manual:

18 chapters across 153 pages. Every chapter ends with something written down that you keep.

1. Chapter 1: Why one slow site had two causes, and neither of them was the server
2. Chapter 2: One page request, traced from the click to the last font file
3. Chapter 3: The stack sheet and the four baseline numbers you record before the first change.
4. Chapter 4: What you are really renting, and why unwanted traffic fills it before your customers do
5. Chapter 5: Four layers, one map, and the exclusion list that keeps a fast site honest
6. Chapter 6: Finding what each plugin really costs, then retiring the ones that do not earn it
7. Chapter 7: Autoloaded options, revisions, indexes, and a cleanup you can hand to someone else
8. Chapter 8: The three front-end paths, the fonts and images that decide your payload, and the advice that expired.
9. Chapter 9: The half of the site your staff use every day and nobody has ever timed.
10. Chapter 10: An honest ranking of the real entry paths, with no fear and no invented numbers
11. Chapter 11: Right-sizing roles, retiring accounts, and giving software its own key
12. Chapter 12: The file-level settings you can apply yourself or hand to a developer as a checkable list
13. Chapter 13: The openings that ship with the software, and how to close the ones you do not use
14. Chapter 14: Turning the update you keep putting off into a routine that runs itself
15. Chapter 15: What a complete backup holds, where it must live, and the drill that turns hope into two written numbers
16. Chapter 16: The ordered playbook for the first hour, the first day, and the week that follows
17. Chapter 17: One sheet of settings, where each one lives, and how to prove it worked
18. Chapter 18: The weekly, monthly and quarterly rhythm, and how to hand work over without losing the keys