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DiggProof your Wordpress A close look at optimizing and tweaking your MySql database for Wordpress and other tips and plugins to make your Wordpress blog faster than it already is. Even though Wordpress is fast in its own right, this article is geared for high traffic blogs and especially those that run Wordpress on smaller Virtual Private Servers.

While we are on the subject of optimizations, the newly released Wordpress 2.1 Ella has introduced many code and query optimizations that should make Wordpress much faster than it already was. For example, one of the changes introduced to handle future posts gives the database the ability to cache more queries at the MySql level and should reduce load on the database server (however minuscule).