I’ll present just one simple example of this method. For a list of available fonts go to Google Font Directory. For a complete documentation visit Google Font API.

Example:

This is normal font. And this is Tangerine font from Google.

You have to make the font available by adding one line to the header of page, and then add style:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">
<style>
.fpw-tangerine-normal {
    font-family: Tangerine, serif;
    font-size: 24px;
}
</style>

Now you can display it:

<p>This is normal font. And this is <span class="fpw-tangerine-normal">Tangerine</span> font from Google.</p>

You’ve probably noticed a theme switcher widget on the right sidebar. Among choices, beside our original iNove theme, you’ll find themes based on advanced xScape framework from Dev4Press. Right now two of them are available ( baseScape and eScape ) with more to follow as they become available.

I’ve received signals that one of my websites does not deliver emails when AJAX powered contact forms were used. After number of tests with several browsers results were rather depressing.

]]> http://fw2s.com/2010/04/24/ajax-and-browsers-compatibility/feed/ 0 http://fw2s.com/2010/04/21/making-wordpress-faster-tip-2/ http://fw2s.com/2010/04/21/making-wordpress-faster-tip-2/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:12:30 +0000 Webmaster http://fw2s.com/?p=362 Minimizing number of http requests is the key to better response time. After displaying a page/post view page source and see how many javascripts and css files had been loaded. If you use many plugins this number could be quite large. There is one plugin which can really help.

WP Minify by Thaya Kareeson integrates the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

It may or it may not work with all default settings. You should selectively exclude some scripts and/or css files if you get undesirable results. Be patient and you will be rewarded!

What if you have more themes installed than you want to allow viewers to choose from? There is nothing in documentation of the plugin to explain it. Here is a simple solution:

Add one line:
 
    Status: unpublished
 
to the header of style.css for each theme which should not be available for selection. That’s all!