886183_red_car_speedingOver time, your store will take longer and longer to publish.  Some of the things that contribute to this are the number of items in your store, the number of templates you have and the amount of work your templates need to do to make the HTML for the page.  One way to speed up publishing is to remove unnecessary elements from the editor.  If you have custom templates you can do a little RTML coding and change how the site will publish.

For the RTML it is an easy modification and you just need to know where to place the code. You can use this anywhere the same content is repeated many times like the header footer and navigation bar, but for today I will only show the navigation bar  just because the header and footer can cause unforeseen issues so try at your own risk.

here is what it will look like when it is all said and done. this was done on the yhst-######-left-nav template

TEXT ONCE :publish
       GRAB
         WITH-OBJECT :index
           WHEN @contents
             TAG tag "ul"
               FOR-EACH-OBJECT @contents
                 TAG tag "li"
                   CSS-WITH-LINK title @name
                                 destination TO id
                     TEXT @name

Have fun with this and if you do something wrong it will look strange,  but like everything test and test again.