Author: Frank P. Walentynowicz
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.
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.
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.
Moved to WordPress 2.9
Upgrade of the core took 2 minutes. Next 10 minutes spent to enable post-thumbnails feature and tweaking my theme to support it. In 12 minutes all done!
Style Box plugin – review
This plugin by Shivendu Madhava is one of my favorites. Small, simple and adds stylish look to your posts/pages. It is so simple that my review consists of examples only!
Delink Pages plugin – review (cont.)
Delink Pages 1.1 by Jennifer Stuart is now available.
There were some issues with first release of the plugin. Jennifer addressed them all in this new release... and more.
Delink Pages plugin – review
Recently I found Delink Pages 1.0 plugin by Jennifer Stuart. It promises something I was looking for:
This plugin will allow you to specify certain pages to not be linked when wp_list_pages() is used in a theme. You might want to do this if you want a header for a series of subpages, but don't specifically want that header to be a real page itself.