We also switched to MySQL for the search engine which reduces the database table and makes the search not only better but also faster. So not a lot has changed on this side except that we upgraded it to the latest available major version, granting us a minor performance boost and improved security. We’ve been using phpBB for the forums even before we had our blog, and it’s been working great. Any help to make this happen is more than welcome! Forum Our plan for the future is to move away from WordPress to take advantage of GitLab Pages to run a static website instead. On the backend side, we cleaned the database up by removing comments (which had been turned off years ago), post revisions, unnecessary users, and much more, reducing the size of our database by 60%.Īll those small changes lead to a significant improvement of loading times: from around 9 seconds to 1 second! Speaking of tracking: we also removed Google Analytics, which we weren’t using anyway. If you have a look at the sidebar, you’ll notice a handful of badges: GitHub, GitLab, Discord, matrix, Twitter, Reddit – all without a single line of JavaScript, as in, no tracking. Moreover, since more and more people are browsing the web via their phones, we are more than happy that vtastek took the time to make the blog responsive, so that it looks great on mobile as well! Jetpack because our posts are written in Markdown.Polylang, since WordPress doesn’t support internationalization by default and some of our blogposts are translated into a couple of languages.Also, no need to fetch your pitchforks if you’re using Tor or a VPN: we configured Cloudflare to not annoy you, so it’s only used as a CDN/cache. our Cloudflare integration, since our server is not super powerful and we’ve been slashdot’ed before.Ten years using WordPress and still kicking! But it was time to clean up the dust a bit.įirst of all, we removed unnecessary plugins like akismet and its friends to only keep: We took some time this year to overhaul, simplify and awesomify our web presence and infrastructure.
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