WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used by website developers. There are two parts to WordPress:
A relatively common problem is that the WP Admin has low performance even when the frontend works fast for your users. Most performance enhancements that you do makes only your frontend faster. This makes it difficult to manage your website. In this article, we will learn about how we can improve the performance of WP Admin for WordPress on Azure App Service.
You can set up a new WordPress website on Azure App Service from the Azure Marketplace: Create WordPress on App Service - Microsoft Azure. This WordPress website on Azure App Service uses a remote storage by default where all your files are stored. Now you can configure your WordPress website to use the local storage. This improves performance significantly because the requests are now served from the local storage of the web server.
Here is how you can enable local storage and caching for your WordPress website on Azure App Service:
Step 1: Once the website is deployed, go to the resource. (if you do not understand this, refer to step 10 in How to set up a new WordPress website on Azure App Service.)
Step 2: Click on Configuration in the left panel.
Step 3: You will see a list of application settings with Name, value, source, deployment slot setting and options to delete and edit. Search for the application setting with Name: WORDPRESS_LOCAL_STORAGE_CACHE_ENABLED and click on the Edit button. If you cannot find the setting, click on +New application setting.
Step 4: In the Add/Edit application setting, enter the following details:
Name: WORDPRESS_LOCAL_STORAGE_CACHE_ENABLED
Value: true
Click on OK.
You should be able to see the application setting that was added and set to true.
Step 5: Click on Save. In the Save changes dialog, click Continue.
Now the web server gets restarted with local storage caching enabled.
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Support and Feedback
In case you need any support, you can open a support request at New support request - Microsoft Azure.
If you have any ideas about how we can make WordPress on Azure App Service better, please post your ideas at Post idea · Community (azure.com)
or you could email us at wordpressonazure@microsoft.com to start a conversation.
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