Speed Up Your Wedding Photography Website in less than 5 minutes.

If you have a wedding photography website, more than likely you want to showcase your work, or the work of your colleagues. You want to do this, without putting up low quality pictures, nor do you want to make your visitors wait 20 seconds before the page loads. Here are two plugins I use for my clients to help with this.

• The Smush.it plugin. This plugin compresses your image using the Smush.it API from Yahoo!, I’ve used it to reduce a page size from 3MB to 1.3MB, which meant that visitors were able to see the site faster, and appreciate the photographs rather than their internet connection.
• W3 Total Cache : This is a fairly advanced plugin that makes your site use MySQL less, and also helps you off load things onto a content delivery network with a few clicks.

Using these plugins wisely, you can improve the experience for your readers by a factor of 5.

If you have a wedding photography website, and don’t want to deal with these plugins and configuration settings, sign up for a managed wordpress hosting plan with me, and use the coupon code: “WEDDINGS” to get 25% off your monthly bill for life.