February 13, 2012
I am very happy you have resurrected this plugin!
January 1, 2012
Happy New Scriblio!
The most recently released, stable version of Scriblio is marked 2.9-r1 and was last updated in June 2010. You can be forgiven for thinking development had ceased in the interim. Today, however, I’m proud to introduce a completely new Scriblio, re-written from the ground up to take advantage of the latest features of WordPress and eliminate the mistakes [...]
December 31, 2011
How WordPress Taxonomy Query URLs Could Be More Awesomer
(Updated, see below) WordPress 3.1 introduced some awesome new taxonomy query features, and the URL parsing allows some rudimentary syntax to query multiple terms and choose if the query is OR’d or AND’d. The URL syntax is as follows: A comma (,) between terms will return posts containing either term (logical OR), like this http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/tag/wordpress,mysql/ . A [...]
August 24, 2011
Sara Cannon On Responsive Web Design At WCSF
Sara Cannon‘s talk on responsive web design (resizing the page to suit different client devices) was spot on. Her slides are below, but she also recommends this A List Apart article on the matter, as well as Less Framework and 1140 CSS Grid (especially as alternatives to 960.gs). Responsive Web Design – WordCamp San Francisco View [...]
August 16, 2011
DoubleHappy Game Creator
DoubleHappy, by Instinct, the same folks who make the GetShopped ecommerce plugin for WordPress, is an interesting game creation tool. All the game elements are stored in WordPress using custom post types and other advanced features, but it was their demo of the HTML5 editor that most amazed me. The games still play in Adobe [...]
August 12, 2011
WordPress nocache_headers() vs. Nginx
Typically, you can call WordPress’ nocache_headers() function when you don’t want content to be cached. Typically, but when you’re serving from behind Nginx as a reverse proxy, consideration must be paid. It’s a year old now, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by it, but this thread on the Nginx forums explains that Cache-Control: private [...]
March 7, 2011
Wijax Widget Lazy Loader
Idea: A simple way to improve load-time performance by lazy loading some of the content on the page. Answer: Wijax. The more content in the initial download of the page, the longer readers have to wait to see it. Some content is critical to each page load, but why make people wait for every last [...]
February 22, 2011
WordPress comments_template() and wp_list_comments() Performance
This thread on memory usage while executing WordPress’s comments_template() raised my awareness of performance issues related to displaying comments on posts in WordPress. The first thing to know is that all the comments on a given post are loaded into memory, even if the comments are paged and only a subset will be displayed. Then comments_template() calls update_comment_cache(), [...]
January 22, 2011
WordPress MU/MS Empty Header and Broken Image Bug Fixed
I just switched to a new server and found myself struggling with empty HTTP headers and broken or partial images. The problem is the memcache extension for PHP and WordPress MU/WordPress multisite’s need to reinstantiate the wp-cache after determining the correct blog for a given request. Versions of the memcache extension prior to 3.0 go wrong [...]
October 23, 2010
Improving Will Norris’ Open Graph Plugin
Will Norris put together a nice WordPress plugin to place Open Graph metadata on the page. Today I patched it to address a few bugs I and others have found. The patch switches functions that depended on globalizing $post to use $wp_query->queried_object and similar. opengraph_default_url() is changed to try get_permalink() only when is_singlular() is true. [...]
July 5, 2010
Speed WordPress MultiSite With X-Sendfile For Apache
Like WordPress MU before, MultiSite implementations of WordPress 3.0 use a script to handle image and other attachment downloads. That script checks permissions and maps the request path to the files path on disk, then reads the file out to the web server, which sends it to the browser. That approach has some inefficiencies, and [...]
June 14, 2010
Thank you – got it working with that simple tweak.
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