Cleaning up WordPress to improve performance?

Looking over the current WordPress codebase it’s clear that functions are over-used. My count is over 8,100 functions/methods are defined inside the WordPress codebase. That is terrible, and a terrible use of resources. The problem with that many functions (or classes) is that means wordpress is not DRY (do not repeat yourself) and I’m sure … Read more

Possible to fix admin URL behind proxy issue without hacking core?

In a previous question I was trying to solve an issue where WordPress was using the wrong url in sortable column headers & pagination in the admin when behind a proxy, the only solution that worked involved modifying core files, specifically On lines 491 and 658 in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php, replace this line $current_url = ( is_ssl() … Read more