Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images from the current page and display simple… [more]

Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for WordPress

Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for WordPress

Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) is a WordPress plugin that generates image representations of text… [more]

 

Speeding Up WordPress

Posted on March 6th, 2010 | by Dan Zappone

Over the past week or so as part of the project I am working on I wanted to speed up a WordPress site that is being used as a CMS.  During this process I discovered a two methods (well three technically) that can be used to dramatically shorten the load time for content and speed

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FLIR for WordPress v0.8.9.1 – Updates Facelift, admin panel, speed improvements, Javascript Loading

Posted on March 1st, 2010 | by Dan Zappone

I’m pleased to announce the release of Facelift Image Replacemen for WordPress version 0.8.9.1.  Among other things Flir for WordPress includes and update to Facelift bringing it up to version 2.0b3, all JavaScript has been move to the footer to improve load speed, the admin panel has been updated for ease of use and quick

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Lightbox Plus 1.6.7 – Auto-lightbox images missing title, Interface updates

Posted on March 1st, 2010 | by Dan Zappone

I’m pleased to announce the release of Lightbox Plus 1.6.7 for WordPress.  Change log details are below.
1.6.7

Added fix to auto-lightbox images that are missing title attributes (Thanks Jörn)

This primarily affects images that were placed using older verisons of WordPress

Interface updates

Changed admin panel to work that same way as my other plugins and thereby ease code maintainence
Quick

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Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

Posted on February 4th, 2010 | by Dan Zappone

On Tuesday, February 2nd, Facebook announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. It was rumored that this project was an under the table sort of thing.   However it turns out, HipHop is not just a runtime, it’s also a new webserver and has been powering 90 percent of Facebook’s servers for months now.

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Lightbox Plus 1.6.6 – JavaScript in footer, load speed improvement, Colorbox Update

Posted on February 1st, 2010 | by Dan Zappone

I’m pleased to announce the release of Lightbox Plus 1.6.6 for WordPress.  Change log details are below.
1.6.6

Tested with WordPress 2.9.1

Only works with WordPress 2.8+ due to the use of the $in_footer parameter used in the wp_enqueue_script() function.

Moved all possible JavaScript to the footer to improve load speed

Requires theme has the wp_footer() hook

Cleaned up jQuery call to correctly work in

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