Meetup: Tampa Bay (formerly St. Petersburg)

Featured Speaker: John Biddle 

Slides: Improving WordPress Performance by John Biddle

We’ll be covering some high level tuning options for making your WordPress site run more optimally. Some topics we’ll be covering:

– Basic principles behind WP performance tuning
– What to measure, how to measure & how to understand the results
– PHP 7
– Caching (page, object, browser)
– Image Optimization (types, sizes, compression, lazy loading)
– Additional things for you to look at & resources to help you further

Guest Speaker: John Biddle was the original creator of Tampa Bay WordPress and we’re so glad to have him back speaking again at WordPress St. Petersburg. John has an MBA in Finance and spent 20 years in the IT side of several major banks, the last being JPMorganChase.