Making your blog load faster.

Use the WP Super Cache plugin.  In the case of Wisefaq.com, pages load three times quicker with it.  JErm asked in the comments for the “Make it go faster – Enabling GZip Compression”

How does this relate to WP-Super-Cache usage? Can they work hand-in-hand to make your site load even faster?

Yes they [...]

With apologies to Dan.

I deleted your comment on the Remove hidden data from Microsoft Office documents post.  It’s not intentional, my finger slipped while I was deleting all the cheap drugs comment spam.

There was pages of the stuff.  Fortunately JS-Kit traps the spam comments, and holds them for moderation.  But the moderation queue also [...]

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How to redirect Blogger Beta to WordPress.com (Laffers.net)

This was originally a post at Laffers.net, but I’m getting constant timeouts to that site, so I’m going to repost it here, just in case Laffers.net has gone down. This copy was captured by the Google Cache as it appeared on 24 Dec 2009 04:44:07.

I refer to this article in the following [...]

Hotlinking Thieving Bastard

I was chuffed that someone linked to my “What coffee drink is that” post.  I first saw the chart at another blog, so I grabbed a copy of it.  My post wasn’t that great, but I liked the chart.  So did someone else.  They linked directly to the image on my server.

The [...]

Link Checker – another WordPress plugin

Link Checker is designed to crawl though your blog, verifying that the links you’ve linked to are still there.

Now my utility of choice is Xenu, and I blogged about it here.  Not that there is anything wrong with Xenu, I just noticed Link Checker* and thought I’d give it a spin.

So, [...]

Quick fix: WordPress Mobile browsing.

With the latest release of Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Phone 6.5, the Internet Explorer Browser identifies itself as:

Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Windows Phone 6.5)

which broke the WordPress Mobile Edition browsing.

Now fixed.

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Make it go faster – Expires Headers

apache_feather Or, Wisefaq now tells your web browser that it’s ok to cache graphics (GIF/PNG/JPG/JPEG/ICO), Javascript and CSS.

“This would be important because??”, you ask.

Well when you visit again, your web browser will use it’s copies of the graphics/Javascript/CSS, instead of downloading them again.

A win for you (speed), and me (bandwidth).

Hooray for us!

So how did I manage this?

Wisefaq sits on an Apache web server. (Click here to continue reading Make it go faster – Expires Headers)

Equipment Superior To User

I had to change an email account password in CPanel, and I could not get my email client to connect to the mail server.
In the end, I proved that CPanel and my email client were much smarter than me.

This was what I did:

  1. First went in the change password screen:
    password-screen-1
  2. Hit the generate password button
    password-screen-2 (Click here to continue reading Equipment Superior To User)

Blog updated to Atahualpa theme v3.4.2

Let me know if anything broke …