In order to know all of this, the theme uses PHP tags to get the information. However, it has to use these tags every time a page is loaded.

As most of the information never changes, you can delete these tags from your theme, and replace them with normal text. That way, your server has less to process next time around.

13 Common Tags in WordPress Themes

The easiest way to replace the tags is to load up a page from your blog, then “View Source.” Now go through your theme and look for the following tags, then find what each tag corresponds to in your page source. Paste the text from the page source over the theme tags.

Save the files after every change and check that the new version of the page is identical to the old.

1. <?php language_attributes(); ?> found in header.php.
2. <?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?> found in header.php.
3. <?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?> found in header.php.
4. <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> found throughout the theme.
5. <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –> found in header.php. If you’re using a 3rd party stats program (like Google Analytics) then you’ve nothing to worry about, and if your version of WordPress is out of date, you won’t want hackers knowing that.
6. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?> found in header.php.
7. <?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?> founder in header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. Be careful if you switch to FeedBurner after doing this. Make sure you remember to update the feed URL here manually (The FeedSmith plugin won’t do it anymore).
8. <?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?> found in header.php.
9. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?> found throughout the theme.
10. <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?> found throughout the theme. Your site’s slogan.
11. <?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’); ?> found in sidebar.php and footer.php.
12. <!– <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –> found in footer.php. This HTML comment won’t be overly useful to many of us, so delete away!
13. If you are using widgets, you can also delete the code in sidebar.php between the lines<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
    if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    and
    <?php endif; ?>
    Content between these 2 lines is only used if widgets are not enabled. If you know that you will continue to use widgets, then there is no need for any code here (It may be worth leaving a comment along the lines of “Content here used if widgets are disabled” to remind yourself of this in the future).

By removing these, you’ll shave the load of your server and pages will be constructed that bit faster.

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Optimize Images

I think having attractive images in your articles is a key part of blogging, but I also think you need to optimize images so that they not any larger than they need to be. If you are lucky enough to have a copy of Photoshop, it is ideal for this task. A few rules which will help you out are:

• Save images that use a limited pallet as .gif or .PNG. i.e a logo that just uses red, white and blue.
• Save images that use the full color spectrum of colors as .jpg i.e a photo of yourself.

If you are saving for the Internet you should use “Save for web”. The aim is to get the final file size as small as possible without wrecking the appearance of the image.

PNG & Gif (indexed): Set the total amount of color to the lowest value possible without effecting appearance of the product. You can play with dither, for some images it will help remove artifacts, by adding a bit of noise. Raise the value of Web snap as high as you can go without making the final product look ugly.

Jpg (RGB): Lower the quality to as low as possible without making the final product look ugly, and without adding too many artifacts, you can also add some blur which may remove so ugly artifacts, but don’t get too carried away.
Make sure that if you are resizing images that you set the mode to RGB. Indexed images don’t resize well.You should ensure that images are cropped to remove any unnecessary parts, and resized to the correct final size. Don’t waste valuable bandwidth by using html code to resize an image.

Use A Minimalist Theme

Attractive graphics and excessive use of plug-ins in your theme can add to the file size of your site, and raise your loading time. So selecting a minimalist theme is a great way to reduce the size of your Blog.

Compress the Stylesheet and Javascript files used

You can compress Javascript and the Stylesheet used in your theme. To compress Javascript you can use a Javascript compressor. For the CSS files, you can remove the comments, and remove blank lines and spaces using your favorite text editor. This will optimize your set up a small amount.

Reduce Overall Latency by Reducing HTTP Requests

PlanetEnjoy writes about the importance of reducing HTTP requests:

Every HTTP request, or loading each item on your website, has an average round-trip latency of 0.2 seconds. So if your site is loading 20 items, regardless of whether they are stylesheets, images or scripts, that equates to 4 seconds in latency alone (on your average broadband connection).

So it is important to ensure that you are not including an unnecessary amount of HTTP requests.

Don’t Rely on Other Sites!

If you are loading content from other web sites it is going to slow your loading time. For example both the widgets at the bottom of this page load from other servers, Blogrush and Blogcatlog. If either of these servers are having bad days the widgets can take an age to load. This is part of the reason why I have them in the footer, so any lag doesn’t stop any other content from loading. Ad networks, badges, widgets, images, scripts may all be loading content from other servers. For optimal performance you need to rely as little as possible on other servers.

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You have the freedom to design your own mobile themes if you aren’t too happy with the defaults. What I also liked about Mobile Press is that it tweak the layout based on the mobile phone browser.

So if someone is reading your site on an iPhone, he’ll see a more iPhone like layout that will be different from what is displayed on a mobile phone with Opera Mini or say Windows Mobile.

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On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free. We’ve kicked things off with the basics — now you can shape what comes next. Just drop them a line and let them know what you’d like to see added.

WordPress.tv is also now the place to find all that awesome WordCamp footage that was floating around the web without a home. See the presentations you missed and get a peek at behind-the-scenes action. We call it WordCampTV.

You’ll also find slideshows of presentations made by Automattic employees and other WordPress gurus, plus interviews I’ve done with the media and fellow bloggers.

They hope you’ll consider WordPress.tv not just a support resource, but also a place to hang out and keep up with all the geeky goodness going on in the WordPress community. Tune in regularly for fresh content and updates to the WordPress.tv blog. Lots more is on the way.

Main Announcement Link

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It is just a day after wordpress 2.7 release and we have already started seeing users reporting issue with WordPress 2.7 Upgrade. One such issue which has been faced by many users is getting white blank page after upgrading to wordpress 2.7. After researching around we have some fix which might help you to solve wordpress 2.7 upgrade white blank page issue and some other issues.

Many users reporting that after upgrading to wordpress 2.7 when they are trying to login to admin dashboard they are greeted with a white Blank page. Thought there is no word from wordpress team about any possibility of bug or issue but some of fixes which might solve this issue are here,

Fix for WordPress White Blank Page Issue

If you are using wp-cache or super-cache plugin then please refresh your cache files and then try to login to wordpress admin dashboard

Fix for WordPress Admin Menu Link Problem.

Renaming index.php file present in wp-plugin directory to index.html.

Fix WordPress all post, pages, website, blog not getting displayed

This issue is because of incompatible WordPress theme. Change your theme from WordPress admin panel to default theme for time being. Double check you theme before proceeding for WordPress Upgrade. Ask Theme author to make it compatible with wordpress.

Please Note:

1. Make sure you have disabled all plugins which are not compactable with wordpress

2. Do backup your whole wordpress blog, database as well as core files.

3. If some thing goes wrong and you need to revert back or say need to downgrade to wordpress 2.6.x or 2.5.x then apply database backup first and then replace wordpress files

4. Read detailed steps for Upgrading WordPress Extended before proceeding for WordPress Upgrade.

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http://microments.com/category/web-hosting

This doesn’t looks good and not so Search engine friendly; if you are thinking of making it something like

http://microments.com/web-hosting

It’s pretty and comparatively more SEO friendly, You will need to remove the word “category” from the existing URL to make it look like this.

If you no more find that word important, open .htaccess file from the root directory of your blog installation and add the following line:

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Done! Save he changes made and all your URLs will now look like this:

http://microments.com/web-hosting

Note : If your blog is older then Search engines might have crawled older URL which will now show 404 error after changes so, it is recommended for newly setup blogs.

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What is this plugin about?

Make Me Social is the WordPress plugin which will send each new post you make to the most famous social services. This practically means instant traffic to your blog as soon as you publish a new post, helping it to become famous in a few seconds.

How it works?

Make Me Social automatically submit new post to Twitter, Delicious, Tumblr and Diigo. Thus instant traffic to your blog as soon as you publish a new post, helping it to become famous in a few seconds.

10-15x more visitors and spiders in just 3 days

Requirements

The chances are 99% that you are okay with them. You need WordPress 2.6, 2.7 or 2.8.* A server with PHP 5 and support for the curl and file_get_contents functions (they are supported by almost all the web hosting companies).

However, if posting to Twitter, Tumblr and Diigo does not work, then curl is not enabled on your host. If posting to Delicious does not work, then the file_get_contents function is disabled on your host. But as I already said, these cases are extremely rare.

Instructions

The installation and configuration is very easy and takes only 1 minute.

• Open the file makemesocial.php with your favorite text editor.
• Change the $twitter_username, $twitter_password, $tumblr_email, $tumblr_password to match the credentials of your accounts on the relevant social bookmarking services.

Now save the file makemesocial.php and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. Visit your WordPress Dashboard and activate the Make Me Social Plugin. You are ready!

Every new post you publish from now on, will be sent to Delicious, Twitter, Tumblr and Diigo. Good luck and enjoy your continuously increasing traffic!

Download - Make Me Social – WordPress Plugin

Screenshots

Edit Make Me Social PHP File using Notepad or any other software

Twitter Page Demo - Works Great

Diigo Page Demo - Works Great

Delicious Page Demo - Works Great

Future Plans

• Dashboard Settings – I am working on user friendly dashboard settings
• Automatic Tags – Superior tagging system which will be based on topic title

Testimonials

A new blog I created last month was getting around around 50-100 unique daily visitors. Although I was updating it often, this was not changing. After installing this plugin. You can see how the stats jumped suddenly. Now I get 700-900 unique daily visitors and it is still rising. Also, the visits from search engine spiders have increased from 20-30 to 300-500 daily. – Alex G

The best thing is that after auto posting to Twitter, lot of other blog owners are now finding my posts and linking to them. In only 3 days I got more than 80 original backlinks from other blogs and forums to my blog posts. Before installing the plugin, I had no backlinks at all. With its turn, this had as a result that many of my posts got a high rank at Google search results (some appear on the 1st page, just 1 hour after posting them to my blog). This was not happening for a whole month before installing the plugin, although I was updating my blog with the same frequency. – Nyk S

Important: If you already have another plugin for auto posting to Twitter, disable it, else your posts will be twitted twice!

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The FireFox browser gave this error when I tried to view the feed.

“XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity … Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>”

The problem was caused by one of my plugins that inserted a blank line at the top of the RSS feeds.

The solution is to find that offensive plugin and remove any leading or trailing lines before and after the <?php and ?> PHP code respectively.

Solution

I hope this helps you if you’ve faced a similar problem.

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In order to know all of this, the theme uses PHP tags to get the information. However, it has to use these tags every time a page is loaded.

As most of the information never changes, you can delete these tags from your theme, and replace them with normal text. That way, your server has less to process next time around.

13 Common Tags in WordPress Themes

The easiest way to replace the tags is to load up a page from your blog, then “View Source.” Now go through your theme and look for the following tags, then find what each tag corresponds to in your page source. Paste the text from the page source over the theme tags.

Save the files after every change and check that the new version of the page is identical to the old.

1. <?php language_attributes(); ?> found in header.php.
2. <?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?> found in header.php.
3. <?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?> found in header.php.
4. <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> found throughout the theme.
5. <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –> found in header.php. If you’re using a 3rd party stats program (like Google Analytics) then you’ve nothing to worry about, and if your version of WordPress is out of date, you won’t want hackers knowing that.
6. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?> found in header.php.
7. <?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?> founder in header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. Be careful if you switch to FeedBurner after doing this. Make sure you remember to update the feed URL here manually (The FeedSmith plugin won’t do it anymore).
8. <?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?> found in header.php.
9. <?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?> found throughout the theme.
10. <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?> found throughout the theme. Your site’s slogan.
11. <?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’); ?> found in sidebar.php and footer.php.
12. <!– <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –> found in footer.php. This HTML comment won’t be overly useful to many of us, so delete away!
13. If you are using widgets, you can also delete the code in sidebar.php between the lines<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
    if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    and
    <?php endif; ?>
    Content between these 2 lines is only used if widgets are not enabled. If you know that you will continue to use widgets, then there is no need for any code here (It may be worth leaving a comment along the lines of “Content here used if widgets are disabled” to remind yourself of this in the future).

By removing these, you’ll shave the load of your server and pages will be constructed that bit faster.

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