Over the past week or so as part of the project I am working on I wanted to speed up a WordPress site that is being used as a CMS.  During this process I discovered a two methods (well three technically) that can be used to dramatically shorten the load time for content and speed up WordPress.  These tweaks will only work with Apache though they may work on a Windows version of Apache it has not been tested.  One method only requires editing your template files while the other requires that you are able to edit your .htaccess file.  The first two methods work by compressing data before sending it and the third uses plugins that do a variety of things to speed up WordPress.
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