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Using Google Font API
For many years web developers had to rely on fonts being available on viewers’ machines. Not any more – thanks to Google Font API.
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.
Finally version 3.0 of WordPress is here
WordPress 3.0 is finally released. We did automatic upgrade, with no accidents, to all our websites, and all works well. It is important to know that the new version’s memory requirements changed, therefore, do not perform the upgrade before increasing PHP memory_limit to 64M as 32M is not longer enough, especially when 5 or more plugins are installed.
Moved to WordPress 3.0-RC3
Yet another step…
Moved to WordPress 3.0-RC2
One more step…
Moved to WordPress 3.0-RC1
Another update heading towards the official release of WordPress 3.0.
Moved to WordPress 3.0-beta2
WordPress 3.0 is not released yet but we’ve moved to WordPress 3.0.-beta2 version, as it is pretty stable now. This move allows us to use all new features of version 3.0.
Reviews of Dev4Press plugins and themes coming soon
You can expect many reviews of Dev4Press plugins and themes being posted here in near future. Our website use most of them.
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.
AJAX and browsers compatibility
Popularity of AJAX is undisputed. Majority of Google’s services could not be delivered without it. One might think that all major browsers support it. I was among these believers. Till yesterday.
Making WordPress faster – tip #2
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.
Theme Switcher Reloaded – Limit selections
Theme Switcher Reloaded plugin by Themebot allows the viewer to make a selection from available themes and it does it well. This plugin is being used on our website ( see the sidebar ).
