Title: Storing theme settings
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Storing theme settings

 *  [benwainwright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benwainwright/)
 * (@benwainwright)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/storing-theme-settings/)
 * Hi there
 * Hi guys. I am new to these forums, so hi! Sorry if I put this in the wrong forum…
 * I am currently in the process of developing a WordPress theme for my rugby club.
   The site is hosted on a rather slow shared server, so I have been reading a lot
   about how to optimize WordPress themes to speed them up. I was wondering the 
   following:
    1. Does each `bloginfo()` call represent a separate SQL query?
    2. A lot of the websites I have been reading recommend turning unnecessary dynamic
       code into HTML, things like title etc. Now it is unlikely that these things 
       will change often, but I *would* like to give my committee the option of changing
       it, but I was wondering about writing blog settings into a flat file using either
       serialize/unserialize or json_encode/json_decode or something along those lines
       rather than into the database, then load them once at the start of the theme
       and call them from variables. Could somebody with a better understanding of 
       PHP/Mysql comment on whether that is likely to make any improves than all these
       separate SQL queries?

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