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Wordpress for iphone 2.1 is now available on the Apple app store. So convenient to manage your blog right from your phone.

You can now follow Dreamhost on twitter http://www.twitter.com/dreamhost. Dreamhost also tweets their status updates http://www.twitter.com/dhstatus.

Dreamhost is offering their hosting services for free during a trial period of two weeks when you sign up for one of their hosting plans. You can cancel anytime.

Dreamhost has enhanced their email filters so that now you can filter your emails on email headers. Not only that, now you can also add custom headers to incoming emails.

When you sign up for Dreamhost hosting, you will receive upto $75 in Google AdWords credit. You can start using this credit instantly for the search advertising campaign for your website.

I like Wordpress a lot but the fact is that it is slower than serving static HTML pages. However, there is a very simple trick that can significantly speed up the loading of your wordpress blog. The tip is: “Reduce the number of unnecessary PHP calls”

This means replace the PHP calls in your wordpress theme with static HTML for things like blog title, content-type and the like. In the wordpress panel, go to the theme editor and open header.php

For example, change these lines

so they look something like this

I was looking for ways to improve the load time of my website. One of the website optimizations is to reduce the size of CSS files. I came across cleancss. This online tool analyzes your CSS and optimizes it. It also displays the compression ratio after processing. You can either paste your css or just provide a link to the file. The tool lets you choose the amount of compression which is basically a trade-off between readability and size.

There are different types of wordpress themes. Some themes may display the author’s name for the post on the index page of your blog but may not provide a link to the author’s website. There is a very easy fix for that and that is really where the power of wordpress as an amazing blogging platform comes into play.

All you need to do is go to the theme editor in your wordpress blog admin panel. Search for the text

in the main index template (index.php file) and replace it with

It is that simple.

Yahoo announced that it will close the Geocities service later this year. Geocities was one of the first to let people create and host their own webpages. Web hosting has come a long way since Geocities went online. Today, with applications like wordpress, you do not need to be a programmer to have your own website. The web hosting cost has become much affordable too.

Dreamhost is now offering integration with Amazon CloudFront web service. If you are a dreamhost customer with an Amazon CloudFront account, you can use the dreamhost webpanel to manage the content that is delivered to the CloudFront. Dreamhost charges $3.95 a month for this integration service.