Posts Tagged “WordPress”
Last week The Hibbs Lupus Trust posted a tweet thanking various people after their site was mentioned in a tweet by Stephen Fry. Lupus is a horrible condition and the Trust aims to help raise awareness of it, support sufferers and help GPs diagnose it. Lupus causes the body’s immune system to go into overdrive [...]
The never ending journey to WP Super Cache 1.0 continues. Go grab the development version of the plugin on the download page as there have been a few changes since my last post (where I announced support for mixed https sites among other things). Some of the changes: The cache preloader will now preload tags [...]
Varnish is an open source, state of the art web application accelerator. What it does is make your existing site faster by caching requests so your web server doesn’t have to handle them. This helps because your web server may be a lumbering giant like Apache that is loaded up with extra functionality like PHP, [...]
WP Super Cache 1.0 will be out soon(ish) but I need testers to bang on the development version available on the download page. This version should be significantly faster if you have a lot of mobile visitors, plus it adds support for https secure pages. The speed came about by saving those files as static [...]
I just added a contact form to the about page here using a Polldaddy survey. While it’s not as straight forward as installing a plugin to do the job, I think it’s worth doing because it touches on all aspects of Polldaddy survey creation. After you’ve created this contact form on your own blog you’ll [...]
I logged into my Minecraft server yesterday evening to see a stunning WordPress logo up on a hill. It was created by Thorsten. No it wasn’t. Author remains unknown. I wonder who created it? I really must get that Minecraft commmentary done so I can show off what he and everyone else created in this [...]
WP Super Cache is a full page caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website run much faster! Version 0.9.9.8 has been released and has a number of bug fixes and changes including: CDN updates: it can be switched off. Multiple CNAMEs can be used for serving static content to improve performance. Uninstall process improved. [...]
Joost posted a great article on reducing http requests on WordPress sites recently and one comment caught my attention. Nabil mentioned cSprites. It’s a WordPress plugin that merges the images in your posts into one file and uses CSS to position the single merged file in place of the original images. Here’s a good post [...]
Cookies for Comments 0.5.4
Donncha O Caoimh | July 20, 2011 | 4 comments
Cookies for Comments is a WordPress plugin that can be used alongside Akismet to significantly reduce or even kill completely comment spam. Version 0.5.4 adds a rejections page in case human visitors trip over the cookie check. You can modify the message shown to visitors and it’s obviously only useful if you don’t use the [...]
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