Echo commenting chases the corporate dollar – I’m out
DaleI’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…
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 –…
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…
Things I learnt when migrating from Blogger
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…
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…
Make it go faster – Expires Headers
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…
Make it go faster – Enabling GZip Compression
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…
So you want to move from Blogger to a WordPress blog
There's plenty of advice out there on how to automatically move from Blogger to your own site. The general steps you need to take are: Setup your own site with…