This evening I went through the process of upgrading WordPress to the recently released 2.1 series. As a force of habit, I follow the guidelines for upgrading WordPress. Depending on the site of your blog, following the guidelines can be a little time consuming; things like backing up your database an other important files. Regardless … Continue reading WordPress 2.1 Upgrade
WordPress Community provides help, information and evangelism for WordPress users by WordPress users. In Episode 11 of their WordPress podcast, Charles Stricklin and David Peralty, among other things, went through a list of new plugins (some good, some not so good) that have been released. I was fortunate enough to have my Kottke Style Archives … Continue reading Kottke Style Archives Featured In WordPress Community Podcast
Hicksdesign Style Archives Jon Hicks is renowned for making things look pretty. I thought he had a pretty creative way of displaying his post archive pages, so I wrote a simple plugin for WordPress to emulate that same design. Subtraction Style Archives Khoi Vinh is a talented designer who works for the New York Times … Continue reading Plugins
Plugins A list of the WordPress plugins that I’ve written, all of which are related to displaying the WordPress archives pages in different ways. Themes At some point, I’m going to release a couple of my minimal themes for WordPress.
In the last month or two, I’ve begun writing some simple plugins for WordPress and I’ve been a little frustrated by one of the application/database design decisions which have been made. Most web sites consist predominantly of read activity and infrequent write activity. As such, it is in the interest of performance that, where applicable, … Continue reading WordPress Performance