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Setting up a cache

Setting up a cache - WordPress Tutorial

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Setting up a cache

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- [Instructor] If you want to get serious about your technical performance and further increase your page speed, you're going to want to utilize Cache. A page cache essentially creates a static asset that is loaded, instead of an asset that's dynamically loaded. And what this means is WordPress is built alongside a database. And so when we call a page, we have to fill in all the elements of the page. Where is the title come from, where is the content come from. Well, that's a call to the database. And it calls and pulls each of those assets. If we instead serve up a static picture of the site, we don't need to dynamically generate any of that content. We build all of that content one time, then we take that static asset and we serve it in the cache. And so the first user who arrives, does all the dirty work of having the database crawl and crunch and pull in that insight, and then every user thereafter gets the cached…

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