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Wordpress for iphone

Posted in Wordpress on January 28th, 2010 by dreamhost promo code – Be the first to comment

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

Simple trick to speed up your Wordpress blog

Posted in Wordpress on May 21st, 2009 by dreamhost promo code – 8 Comments

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

  1. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
  2. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  3. <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &amp;raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?> – <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></title>

so they look something like this

  1. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
  2. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  3. <title>Web Hosting Blog</title>

How to get the author’s name to link to author’s website in Wordpress

Posted in Wordpress on May 1st, 2009 by dreamhost promo code – 11 Comments

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

  1. <?php the_author() ?>

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

  1. <?php the_author_link() ?>

It is that simple.