Monthly Archives: December 2008

Most Popular WordPress Plugin Authors

Dec 30th, 2008

According to latest top list, I have made it to number #10 spot of most popular WordPress authors judging by the number of plugin downloads. According to this statistic, in little over a year I released 14 of them or one every 26 days on average. My plugins were downloaded around quarter of million times or a roughly 700 downloads each day. Most popular plugin has been Smart Youtube.

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Style up your website with this hot tip: Use Safari browser!

Dec 24th, 2008

Yes that is right. For some reason Safari's font rendering engine makes the web sites look much better than IE, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. And Safari is now available for PC as well. Without getting too much into this (Joel did) here is a picture to illustrate it. First is the example of Mac rendering below is PC:I have noticed this while initiating change on my site design. I have a goal in my mind and so far I have only re-styled the home page (to regular viewers - how do you like it?).

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Optimize WordPress page loading time with PHP Speedy and WP Super Cache

Dec 23rd, 2008

This advanced article is a part of WordPress Optimization effort. PHP Speedy allows us to automatically combine all JS and CSS files into only two files - which in turn helps greatly with page loading times. Unfortunately, PHP speedy comes with few flaws out of box that need fixing:Combined JavaScript is placed at the top of the page instead at the bottom It does not work with WP Super CacheIn order to get this two working like we want them, we need to make few adjustments to both plugins.

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How to move from Feedburner.com to Google Feedproxy

Dec 21st, 2008

Google now offers to publish your feeds directly through feedburner.google.com instead of using feedburner.com.

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Do it Yourself: Optimize your WordPress Page Headings

Dec 16th, 2008

This is second article in the "Do it yourself" series and this one will be about heading tags. Most theme authors still do not pay particular attention to the layout and usage of header tags (H1, H2, H3...) in theme layouts. From the HTML optimization perspective, H1 is the most essential page tag and should appear as first on the page, and only once. H2 tags is next in hierarchy and you can have several of them on the page. Below each H2 you can have several H3 tags and so forth.

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