Speed up WordPress in 10 minutes with Quick Cache
jhnidk - December 28th, 2011 in: SEO, WordPress
The need for speed is crucial in modern webdesign. To speed up WordPress performance, caching plugins are very popular.
Introducing a caching plugin in WordPress means faster page download, better user interaction, better SEO performance, and reduced usage of server resources. It’s obvious why this is important.
In this post we’ll take a closer look at the relatively new cache plugin – Quick Cache. The impressive thing about Quick Cache is that it works great out of the box, which makes it interesting for you, if you haven’t tried caching plugins for WordPress yet, or if you’re having trouble getting some of the other plugins to work.
Speed up your site with CDN Javascript
jhnidk - May 21st, 2011 in: jQuery, PHP
There are many ways of optimizing a site. If you’re using some of the popular javascript libraries, it might be worth spending a few minutes looking at the some of the free online CDN services.
Switching to a online CDN hosted javascript library is easy, and can be implemented in less than 10 minutes.
In this post we’ll take a look at the general benefits, and some of the most popular free Javascript CDN libraries.
Track site speed in Google Analytics
jhnidk - May 13th, 2011 in: Web analytics
Site performance should always be one as you main concerns as a site owner or webmaster. Great site speed can improve SEO, increase conversion rates and reduce bounce rates.
With the new version of Google Analytics, you can now easily follow the site speed of your site.
All that’s needed is adding a few lines of code in your Google Analytics tracking code and then you’re up and running.
Get a nice url for your Facebook page
jhnidk - April 23rd, 2011 in: Facebook
The default url’s for facebook pages can be very long and difficult to remember. However Facebook has a very handy feature for creating nice url’s for your Facebook page.
The only requirement is that your page has more the 25 fans.
In this post you’ll learn how easy it is to create a nice url like facebook/com/yourpagename to your facebook page
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CSS3 support in Internet Explorer the easy way
jhnidk - January 10th, 2011 in: CSS, Graphics
Css3 offers a variety of new functionality that makes it easy to produce spectacular graphical effects like rounded corners, box shadow and gradient backgrounds without using external JavaScript or advanced markup with creative usage of background images.
The problem with CSS3 is that especially Internet Explorer 7 and 8 doesn’t support CSS3, which means that you risk that a huge part of your visitors can’t see all the nice eye candy you have built in CSS3.
The good news is that you don’t have to wait for Internet Explorer 9, before CSS3 can be used on your site. With the technique described in this post, you can actually learn Internet Explorer 7 and 8 to render beautiful CSS3
Automatically post to Facebook from PHP script
jhnidk - December 15th, 2010 in: Facebook
Facebook is currently on of the most important publishing and traffic generating sources for many websites. Manually Cross publishing content on your own site and Facebook seems like a lot of extra work.
This post guides you through the creation of a Facebook application that can automatically post messages and other types of content on your Facebook wall.
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Display random posts in WordPress
jhnidk - December 8th, 2010 in: WordPress
On a blog, it’s typically only a small portion of the posts that’s being read.
However if you want to inspire your readers to read further posts, a random post script can be a effective tool to expose additional content to your users and thereby increase the stickiness of your site.
In this post you’ll learn how easy it is to insert a random post script in WordPress.
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