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Within the first week using WordPress I had over two dozen plugins and also noticed that the site took several seconds to load a page. I downloaded FireBug for Firefox and installed YSlow but was still getting low scores. (C/D grades and 65-72 in terms of scoring). I then realized that YSlow scores based on [...]
Apr 27
WordPress Removing index.php From URL on Windows and II6
WordPress | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 7:20 AM
Within a few minutes of installing WordPress on Windows / IIS6, I wanted to get rid of the index.php which appeared in the URL. At a high-level, index.php is the gatekeeper to all the WordPress pages. WordPress was originally an Apache-based (think IIS for Linux) product and used Apache’s ability to rewrite URLs so the [...]
Apr 27
Use WordPress 404 Pages instead of IIS 404 Pages
WordPress | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 12:42 AM
I host WordPress on IIS (a WAMP stack) and wanted to use WordPress 404 pages and not use the default IIS 404 pages. The reason is that online exist a bunch of links to this site that are out of date. I’d rather a simple 404 with links is returned to users and not the [...]
Apr 19
How To Create WordPress Category Listing or Archive
WordPress | Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 1:12 AM
WordPress has some good plugins, but I couldn’t find a simple one which lists all categories and then underneath each lists the posts within. (I did actually find one good one, but it didn’t display properly) After a few hours of back and forth with plugins I decided to create my own “Archive By Category.” [...]
Apr 18
Random Header Images with WordPress
WordPress | Sunday, April 18, 2010 @ 3:50 PM
After choosing a theme, Pageline’s iBlog2, I began to modify it by adding a header image. I am not a Photoshop expert so I preferred to stick with photographs. I dug through my photos in Picasa and came up with the idea to convert them to 8-bit grayscale (black and white) to match the gray [...]
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