How to Enable Turbo and Improve Your WordPress Experience
If you’re using WordPress as your blog’s publishing platform and you have yet to enable Turbo, you’re missing out."The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable." When enabled, Turbo essentially uses a local copy of the admin area of your Wordpress installation in order to reduce the need for access of these files from your web server. This is great feature for slow/flaky connections or when server bandwidth is limited. The guide below will walk you through the process of enabling it on your browser. If you have any comments or questions please post them below.
Note: I used WordPress 2.71 and Firefox 3.0.10 for this guide.
Before proceeding with this tutorial make sure that you have Google Gears installed, follow this link to install. Once install proceed with the guide below.
1. Open your website’s WordPress Dashboard (http://www.yoursite.comwp-admin) and click on the Tools link located on the left pane.
2. When you click on Tools the first thing that will appear is Turbo: Gears Status, click on the Enable Gears button to enable Turbo.
NOTE: Do not enable Gears if this is a public computer. When Gears is enabled it copies files from your server locally for faster access.
3. A Gears Security Warning will open. In order for Gears to operate you must add a check to the I trust this site… check box. Make sure that your WordPress web site is the one listed. Click Allow to proceed.
4. WordPress Turbo will use Gears to copy files from your server locally. Allow it to proceed uninterrupted.
5. Once completed the Local storage status: should read Update completed. You’re done.
More information can be found on the WordPress Support Web site
Turbo doesnt seem to appear on my firefox browser.
Im running on a 64 bit system, is there any chance that gears is not enabled on it? Id really love to know how to fix this.
Kaorujin,
You should head on over to the Gears site to install – Gears Site, once installed the feature should be available. Let me know if it works and if you need help.
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Onload of page my antivirus put alert, check pls.
What kind of alert did you receive? What AV product are you using. There’s no reason why that would have occurred. Can you please follow up with me, thanks.