(aka URI or protocol handlers) First released with WordPress version 3.3, December 2011, the wp_allowed protocols() function/feature. You can only link with the following: fax feed ftp / ftps gopher…
On a holiday courtesy of my previous hosting company. If you notice some differences, that’s why. My former web hosting company suddenly decided to enforce a bandwidth limit without telling…
I researched this a couple of months ago, in case I need to move off the wisefaq.com domain. These are my rough notes. Six weeks out: Backup your WordPress site,…
You might have noticed that I briefly switched to the Atahualpa theme. I did this because the upgrade to the Swift theme broke how fonts looks (they got a lot…
I’ve been dissatisfied with the Echo commenting plug-in for WordPress for a while now. The latest-but-last gripe has been with Echo performance. It adds up to 3 seconds to the…
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…
So you want to move from Blogger to WordPress? I don’t blame you, Blogger has it’s limitations. The one’s which annoyed me were: not being able to use my own…
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…
Things were getting slow around here, as you can see with the results from ismyblogworking.com. Now WordPress, in versions before WordPress 2.5, had a GZip compression option. It was removed…
Back on the 16th December, I mentioned that I use the WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin. Here are the three reasons why. Size This is one of those times where small…
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