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Work · September 4, 2018

SustyWP

Building for sustainability with WordPress

SustyWP launched on September 4, 2018 with 2 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

"SustyWP is a WordPress theme aimed for a better cause; to reduce carbon footprint by reducing its size to the smallest as possible." - Hongkiat

The web has a dirty secret – it uses a lot of electricity. The Internet's carbon footprint has possibly already surpassed that of global air travel. Susty WP is a collection of resources and best practices, as well as being a practical example itself, for how WordPress developers can make the web more sustainable.

The Internet uses a lot of electricity. For most of the world, producing electricity means the burning of fossil fuels, this in turn means that the Internet’s carbon footprint may have already eclipsed global air travel . The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that, especially as the Internet expands into new territory, “sustainability should be a bigger priority” . But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese , which means that the energy demand of the web is growing exponentially. There is a nascent but notable shift within the web industry towards making it more sustainable . This website aims to act as a guide to making WordPress websites more…from sustywp.com

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