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WordPress is a CPU hog - use caching plugins!

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:36 +0000

A few days ago I wrote about 38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog. One of the issues I touched on is the use of caching plugins, like WP-Cache 2 and WP Super Cache. Little did I know how important these plugins are for ensuring a smoothly running WordPress blog. Jeff Atwood [...]

38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:43:14 +0000

WordPress blogs and sites can be notoriously slow. But fear not - here are ways to make your WordPress blog super speedy and fun for your visitors to view with a few tweaks, hacks and plugins. Be sure to check back because I will be updating this post as I discover new and wonderful ways [...]

4 reasons not to host your blog on WordPress.com

Miriam Schwab — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:32 +0000

When starting out, many bloggers seek out the cheap and easy route, either choosing to blog on Blogger, WordPress.com, or another free and hosted blogging platform. This approach makes sense, since a person can never know until they’ve started if they even like blogging, let alone whether they’ll be successful.I almost always suggest to beginner [...]

WordPress 2.5 released - and WordPress.org gets a makeover

Miriam Schwab — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:53:37 +0000

I know this is coming pretty late for the world of the internet, but I’ve been really busy and I only recently started getting to know WordPress 2.5. All in all, I think that the upgrade is fantastic, and here’s my review of the new features I have used so far: New admin design I like the [...]

Stylish Firefox add-on plus Google Redesigned equals pretty Gmail

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:18:44 +0000

I know that Gmail and Firefox don’t really have anything to do with WordPress, but I decided to write about them anyways because: I have nothing earth-shattering to say about WordPress right now. Everyone else is talking about version 2.5, and I still haven’t installed it (my bad) so I don’t have anything to add to [...]

Challenge: how to display only authors who have written in a specific category?

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:09:24 +0000

Hi all - I was wondering if one of you can help us find a solution to a feature we would like to add to a WordPress site: The site in question has multiple contributors. Most are dedicated to certain categories. We would like to automatically display on a category page only the authors who have [...]

Matt presents WordPress 2.5 in screencast

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:54:00 +0000

Matt has created a screencast that presents some of the new and cool features of WordPress 2.5. The screencast fills a gap that has existed until now with regards to people writing and talking about the new version using only screenshots and descriptions. Seeing the system live really brings home how WordPress 2.5 signals a [...]

Ryan at WordPress mentions Farsi and Hebrew developers for their work on WP admin

Miriam Schwab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:29:13 +0000

Ryan on the WordPress development blog (which is running on Prologue, very nicely I might add) has basically congratulated the “Farsi and Hebrew translation folks” for their hard work making the WordPress admin look good in right-to-left languages. I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the Hebrew version of WordPress exists mostly, of not [...]

Plugins and hacks for improving the WordPress TinyMCE editor

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:38:57 +0000

The WordPress TinyMCE editor mercilessly strips tags at will. Some will tell you that in order to avoid this problem you should disable the visual editor, but this is not a realistic solution since a. Many people feel more comfortable using a visual editor and b. The editor should not remove code from the coding [...]

Amazing hack for fixing the code changing habits of the WordPress editor

Miriam Schwab — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:18:31 +0000

Update March 23, 2008: The code that I originally wrote below based on Roland O’Connor’s post didn’t work. I subsequently found this WordPress Forum topic, which had the correct code to replace, and I’ve corrected the post below. Also, I wrote a follow-up post to this one with more tips on using plugins and hacks for [...]