=== WP Parallel Loading System === Contributors: joseairosa Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=QMWD392MKS8UW&lc=PT&item_name=Jose%20P%2e%20Airosa&item_number=WordPress%20Plugin%20%28wp%2dpls%29¤cy_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted Tags: image optimization, loading, parallel, plugin, seo, speed improve, system, Wordpress Requires at least: 2.9.0 Tested up to: 2.9.2 Stable tag: 0.1 The WP-PLS (short for Parallel Loading System) is a WordPress plugin that will enhance the loading efficiency of your Blog. == Description == **Why use it?** If you have an image intensive Blog, or even if you don’t, this plugin will boost the loading time of your Blog. The more images you have the more it will improve. The amount of people that will visit your website for the first time or visit with an empty cache or disabled cache is huge, therefore, the best your website performs on that first visit the more chances that person will remain to view your website. It is also known that nowadays, Google (and other search engines), are taking into account, for ranking purposes, your website page speed. Google Bot does not conserve a cache when it visits your website, so, the faster your website loads the more chances you have to rank higher. This plug will not change anything on your Blog. Every change that it makes will be processed in real time, right before the HTML code of your Blog is sent to the browser. **How does it work?** Standard HTTP v1.1 requests only allow 2 connections, at the same time, from the same domain. This plugin will virtualize connections, through defined subdomains. You can have as many subdomains as you like, but I do recommend using a maximum of 5. **Plugin features?** * Automatic Image Optimization. * Parallelize HTTP connections. * Page speed improvement. * Auto-Path find (Automatically find server root path, sub-domain path, plugin resources path…). * Cache loss minimization. * Sub-domain real-time health tracking. * Auto recovery from resource files bad sync. * Ability to activate / deactivate sub-domains * Plugin Updates aware. (automatically re-sync files and database after an update) **Requirements?** The plugin is programmed to be aware of this requirements, and if not fulfilled it will not change anything on your Blog. *It will not break your Blog code!* * Your server needs to have a working GD Library module for PHP. * You should have a PHP installation with a minimum version of 5.1.3 * Access to your server Administration Painel (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk) in order to create new sub-domains for your domain. == Installation == 1. First you need to download it from WordPress Plugin Repository. 2. Upload the contents of the compacted file to your plugin folder on your WordPress installation. 3. Go to your WordPress Administration page and activate the Plugin (Plugins → Installed → WP-PLS → Activate) 4. Go to Settings → Parallel Loading System == Frequently Asked Questions == = Plugin is telling me that I don't have permissions to edit the files = If for any reason the plugin is telling you that it doesn’t have permissions to alter a given file you will need to access your server, using your favorite FTP Client (Filezilla, Cyberduck, FlashFXP…) and change the permissions of the file to 777. You can revert them back to 644 (normal permissions of a file) after the plugin finishes the modifications. = My sub-domain health is is returning a 500 HTTP error code = If you get a sub-domain health notification stating that your sub-domain is returning a 500 HTTP error code the most probable explanation is that your sub-domain folder has 777 permissions. Revert them back to 755 and you should be fine. == Screenshots == 1. Overall view of the active and inactive sub-domain management. 2. Adding new sub-domain form. 3. Results of before and after application of this plugin. 4. Results of before and after when viewed under FireBug Page Speed Performance Analizer. == Changelog == = 0.1 = * Initial release * Automatic Image Optimization. * Parallelize HTTP connections. * Page speed improvement. * Auto-Path find (Automatically find server root path, sub-domain path, plugin resources path…). * Cache loss minimization. * Sub-domain real-time health tracking. * Auto recovery from resource files bad sync. * Ability to activate / deactivate sub-domains * Plugin Updates aware. (automatically re-sync files and database after an update) == Upgrade Notice == = 0.1 = * Initial release == Additional help == You can find additional information about adding new sub-domains to your server administration system (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk) by visiting this plugin homepage: http://www.joseairosa.com/2010/05/17/wordpress-plugin-parallel-loading-system/ == What's in the cooking pan? == This was only the first release of the plugin. I've got a lot of new ideas that I would like to see implemented on next releases. Some of them are: * Also parallelize CSS and JavaScript loading. * Add support to also load external images. At the moment it will only load locally stored images. * Add real-time rewrite functions to CSS and JavaScript. That way, images that have been called from the CSS file will also be parallelized. * Overall improve of the code. * Add options to manage image quality rendering. * Bug fixes (when found or reported). * And much more... If you have any features that you would like to see implemented, please don't hesitate to [http://twitter.com/joseairosa tweet me] or [mailto:me@joseairosa.com mail me] :)