Archive for May, 2007

Subscribe Buttons

Tips & Tricks: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

You’ve no doubt seen a list of buttons similar to the above at many blog sites. They provide the reader a quick way to subscribe to their feed reader of choice. Visually they provide quick identification to the reader they are familiar with, their eye is trained to look for such buttons. And one a […]

FeedBurner FeedSmith

WordPress Plugins: Monday, May 21st, 2007

I had heard of FeedBurner for the longest time but never really took a minute to figure out what it was. I figured I had WordPress and it was creating feeds for me just fine. Well, FeedBurner not only gives you extra options on configuring and optimizing your feed, it also tracks your subscribers! So […]

StatCounter

Web Developer Tools: Monday, May 21st, 2007

You’ve no doubt seen the little Extreme Tracking icons at the bottom of websites that track traffic to the site. I’d like to share another tracking service you may not be familiar with as most people run it invisibly (it doesn’t require you to run a logo banner on your site). It’s called Statcounter. It’s […]

WP-Cache

WordPress Plugins: Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Handle high traffic!
The most recent version of WP-Cache works pretty well. WordPress is pretty quick software and caches access to the MySQL database as it is. But with WP-Cache, pages that are normally created by the server on the fly are written to basically HTML files which can be brought up by future accesses to […]

WordPress 2.2: Widgets!

WordPress: Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

WordPress 2.2 | Release Notes | Download
The long awaited new release of WordPress is finally here, I think like a month late but the way they’ve been churning out updates we’ll let it slide. The big new feature in this version is Widgets. They’ve basically integrated the existing Widget Plugin into the software itself. They […]

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