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Google Fact: You Can Add A Canonical URL to Your Source Page

Judge — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:35:43 +0000

I didn’t know if anyone needed this information, but found it in the Google Webmaster forums about the canonical URL:

“Yes, it’s absolutely okay to have a self-referential rel=”canonical”. It won’t harm the system and additionally, by including a self-reference you better ensure that your mirrors have a rel=”canonical” to you.”

Compress CSS/JS Files with This Incredible Plugin!

Judge — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:49:45 +0000

But… I would say wait a month before you put it on your site.
Scripts Gzip seems like a great plugin, but there have already been issues in the forums about it having installation and directory problems.

Since this guy got placed in the Wordpress plugin rss, I am guessing the script is legit, but would wait until he can get the bugs out. People, help this man test the plugin!

Adding CSS ( Change the Look ) of a Specific Post or Page

Judge — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:12:11 +0000

This plugin allows you upload css, javascript, and even php for a specific page or post. Instead of add if…then statements in the theme, you can use this plugin.

What is better, if you want to dabble with multiple themes in different posts, this plugin will let you do it. Haven’t heard of many bugs yet, and it doesn’t seem to have a lot of popularity in the WP community.

W3 Total Cache, DB Cache/Reloaded, WP SuperCache Information

Judge — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:42:37 +0000

This isn’t a review; I haven’t had time to review these plugins. But I have done a lot of Googling and have found a lot of information to help people understand each plugin and decipher which ones they need. This is written in Jan. 2010, so if you see this post a year later, these plugins may have been upgraded, and a lot better/worse than the time of this writing.

This is a forum for W3 Total Cache. From people’s comments, it seems to have problems with dynamic sidebar content ( such as rotating banners ) and adding comments on different themes.
For the forum above, this plugin seems to also have a lot of issues with distorting themes. Probably should wait until there is an upgrade from its current version ( give the man some money!)*-see below for updated info on W3 Total Cache.
This guy says that DB Cache reloaded is better than WP Super-Cache. But this blogger puts it in perspective: WP Super Cache helps more for sites where some posts get a lot of traffic, and DB Cache helps sites that get a lot of traffic for many posts ( ie: Craigslist = DB Cache. Maxim.com = WP Super Cache ).
Donncha’s WP Super Cache forum: He will answer them in a timely manner.
Remember that DB cache stores db requests, and super cache stores html pages ( if you didn’t read the post above. ).
Anyone know about this plugin Object Cache?

The creator of the W3 Total Cache plugin has a rebuttal to my comments:

- Fragment caching is coming in the next W3TC release, making the few users that don’t have ideal implementations for (some) widgets happy.
- W3TC doesn’t break site layouts, minify is tricky and many users use settings that are unsafe for their particular themes because themes are all of varying quality and complexity. Minifcation is not something that can be automated although some try and those plugins actually break sites.
- Please use these forums for W3TC here, not on my site: http://wordpress.org/tags/w3-total-cache or http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/tags/w3-total-cache
- Database caching reduces the execution time for generating new pages, but nothing will ever be faster than providing apache an .html file to serve a page until there are changes to the way operating systems work. So add a database cache to your site if you want to reduce page generation time.
- Object caching at that site is basically using opcode caching to store the contents of wp_options table required to answer various requests and also reusing the memory storage for the finalize objects like pages or queries.

At the moment, W3TC is the only plugin to optimize, browser, front-end and backend performance for WordPress and there’s far more to come before release.

This is good to hear. Frederick Townes means business, and the W3 Total Cache plugin could be a popular and dominant script for Wordpress for times to come. Thanks; I will add you to my blog roll.

UPDATE: Donncha has some input on the Object Cache:

The Object Cache has nothing to do with an opcode cache though. It’s simply a cache (using your desired storage mechanism – memory as in memcached, xcache etc, or disk) for options and high level objects in WordPress.

For example, the in-development version of wp-super-cache can use the object cache to store cached pages. If your object cache uses memcached, it caches to RAM, and doesn’t even have to be on the same server as the web server.
Batcache does this too.

Related information: Opcode Cache for Dummies

Thanks guys for giving some input on my post. If someone wants to do some benchmarking and/or extra comparison with these plugins, I will more than welcome it ( and link it here ). I am not good with time these days, but understand the importance of this topic.

Your Wordpress MU 2.9.1 Upgrade/Update Failed? Some Helpful Tips.

Judge — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:56:35 +0000

Just going through some stuff I have found when I was helping a friend upgrade his Wordpress MU to 2.9.1 and it failed. Look over these suggestions first before making your decision:

Donncha’s comment-meta solution: link

This ended up working since his was 2.8.2: link

Any other solutions for WPMU 2.9.1 upgrade? Let us know!

The Best Iframe Embed Plugin On Wordpress To Date

Judge — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:51:05 +0000

So today, there were two things that I had to prepare a couple of blogs for. One was the litany of quality video content that has been hitting the web lately ( ie: the Conan O’Brien tirade against NBC ), and some of these websites require flash or Iframe embedding in order to post these videos on your blog.

DISCLAIMER: This is for people who use Wordpress for their blogs, not people who have received blogs from Wordpress.com

I looked through the repository and found some plugins that were either outdated or were a little too complicated in terms of restructuring the embed codes ( ME likey cut and paste. ME no likey cut, paste, change bracket symbol, add an equal sign, and video size dimensions etc. )

But without showcasing the contenders, the best Iframe plugin that allowed me to embed videos was:

EMBEDIT WORDPRESS PLUGIN

I didn’t find this in the Wordpress plugin repository, but it looks legit, and works like a charm.

How to use the plugin:

Once you have installed it, all you have to do is go get the IFRAME/EMBED code.
In the post, write the shortcode in the visual section “” —> without the quotes.
In custom fields, add the name “HTML1″ —–> no quotes, no brackets
In the value section, add the embed code.
Publish the darn thing!
If you have a second video, you can write the shortcode and add HTML2 in the custom field along with the video embed code.
You can do this for up to 9 embeds per post! ( eg: , , , , etc. )
Not sure if it is supposed to be capitalized, but I do it since the plugin has it capitalized.

Try it out. If anyone has any issues, or has a better Embed plugin ( or other plugins that are related ), let me know.

Here is an exmaple of an embed for you. Great song. Enjoy!

The Future Of Music in The 20th Century by thewham

The Much Needed Category Redirect Plugin Is Here!

Judge — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:41:54 +0000

Now, there is what many category-based themes and CMS websites are looking for:

The Wordpress WTA Category Redirect Plugin

Now, you can redirect any category in Wordpress to any post,page or URL. It is very easy to use, and the function is much needed for the Wordpress community.

We’ll add some screenshots, but once you download and use it, you will love what it does, love how simple it is, and give us suggestions to make it better & work for you.

Also, a donation wouldn’t hurt either:)

Download Wordpress WTA Category Redirect Plugin

FAQ:

Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.9?

We have tested this plugin with 2.9.1 and it works. We have tested this with the Danvers Theme and the Mimbo Theme. Category links in navigation and in the sidebar are affected.

The Best Wordpress Expanding Text Plugins

Judge — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:33:48 +0000

Sometimes, it is cool to have a plugin that can expand the text to other information, allowing for setting up blogging information on Wordpress much easier.

The first plugin, which has been around for a very long time, is Dragon Design’s expanding text plugin. This plugin is really easy to use, the shortcode is very simple, and you can give the expanded text a CSS, so you can manipulate what the expanding text looks like. See the website for the plugin download and demo.

The 2nd plugin is the collapsing objects plugin. This is the plugin that was referred to me by James’s website The Wham. If you go to the Wham website, or go to the collapsing objects website, you can see the demo. It is pretty much the same as the former plugin, but it doesn’t have a css function to change around the text. At the same time, as you can see with above, you can do a lot of things with this plugin.

For this plugin, one of the cool things you can do is that you can expand images as well. As long as you put the image inside the [expand] shortcode, it should work well.

If you have anything else to add, or any other similar plugins, please feel free to tell us below. Thanks.

How To Upload Your Theme To The Wordpress.Org Directory

Judge — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:54:11 +0000

Here is the link:

Wordpress Upload Submission Theme Page

For some odd reason, this was the hardest link to find:(

Danvers Theme REBORN & Widgetized: Wordpress Themes

Judge — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:19:27 +0000

There have been a flood of emails from people who were looking for the widgetized version of the Wordpress Danvers Theme.

Well, here you have it. We used it to create the website Redsoxmaniac.com under our company, Web.Tech.Ads. The actual theme was produced by Barleyhut, who made ( I believe ) the best minimalist Wordpress theme I have ever saw. There were some flaws in terms of being fully ready, but if anyone can find this guy ( I think his name is A.M. Griffin ), he would be one of the best to build a Wordpress theme.

Screenshots: Check out Redsoxmaniac.com

Demo: Check out Redsoxmaniac.com

Download Zip Here: DOWNLOAD DANVERS WIDGETIZED THEME

Readme:

Danvers Widgetized README:

1) Make sure you check IE7, 8, Opera, Safari, and Firefox 3.1 and 3.5 when changing the css for this theme.
2) If you want to use the Redsoxmaniac version of the theme, change Redsoxmaniac-style.css to style.css in the theme folder.
3) If you need help, please ask a question on the theme page, or find some answered questions in the FAQ.

http://wpjudge.com/danvers-theme-reborn-widgetized-wordpress-themes/

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