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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.
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 ).
Making WordPress faster – tip #1
It is not uncommon that our websites become slow. We have to remember that majority of viewers are not very patient and will not wait until our pages load. There are countless reasons for website to become sluggish. The following article – Better permalink rewrite code by Milan Petrovic deals with one of them.
Login once to access multiple WordPress installations
My previous article Sharing users across multiple WordPress installations explains how to prepare for our current task. In order to be able to access multiple WordPress blogs with only one login we have to have common users across those installations. This article will deal with additional requirements necessary to accomplish our goal.
Sharing users across multiple WordPress installations
After reading Justin Tadlock’s article “Installing two WordPress blogs with the same users” I have decided to implement this method in two of my test installations. Well… it did not work. Why?
HTML popups in Highslide4WP – 2
If you’ve followed instructions from HTML popups in Highslide4WP – 1 you will see that your html popup looks different from my example ( text buttons instead graphics; different alignment of buttons and your popup does not expand to the center of browser’s window ). Why?
HTML popups in Highslide4WP – 1
All Highslide JS (by Torstein Hønsi) related WordPress plugins are focused on displaying images. In this article I’ll cover implementation of html popups in posts and pages.
