Using Turbo for WordPress to Speed Development

Developing in WordPress involves a ton of editing, saving, refreshing. If you’re doing this on your web-based install each one of those steps can take a full 10sec, meaning trying a few small changes that would take you 5min in Dreamweaver could take 30min in WordPress. As a solution, try out Turbo for WordPress. This caches all of your blog’s files to your computer, which means each reload goes much quicker.

It’s an easy setup and totally worth doing if you are in WordPress frequently. Just

1. install Google Gears
   
2. go to the Tools section of your WordPress backendactivate Gears, and you’ll see it caching your site.
   

I tested out on this blog and saw immediate speed improvements, and then quickly installed it on all of my other WordPress sites.

Do you have any other tools, plugins, or methods that speed up minor php/html/css editing in WordPress?

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