Meet Surge, a brand new page caching plugin for WordPress. It’s extremely fast and has no configuration screens. There is no learning curve, the plugin works just by activating it. Surge stores cache files on the filesystem, leveraging the Linux kernel page cache for efficient in-memory caching and invalidation. In various load tests, Surge has shown to easily handle 1000-2500 requests per...
Debug Bar Slow Actions
If a typical WordPress page load takes more than one second, chances are there’s something terribly wrong with your site, a theme or a plugin is probably doing something it shouldn’t. Obviously you don’t have time to review every single line in your codebase, so Debug Bar Slow Actions might help you out. Debug Bar Slow Actions is an extension for the popular Debug Bar plugin. It...
Publish up to 170% more posts with Color Schemes Roulette for WordPress
You know WordPress 3.8 has arrived, right? It’s got a total of eight new and beautiful color schemes for you to choose from, and another eight (at the time of writing) in an official plugin called Admin Color Schemes, so sixteen total. How do you pick one? Easy. Meet Color Schemes Roulette — a brand new WordPress plugin, that will randomly change your admin color scheme every time you...
Columns for WordPress
Sometimes you need to split your content into two or more columns, perhaps for a list of features on your front page. Unfortunately the standard WordPress editor does not support that out of the box (yet) so you turn to plugins. With quite a few options available, it’s not easy to make the right choice, plus, there’s almost always a learning curve involved, especially with shortcodes...
Double Titles when Sharing on Google+
If you’ve got double titles when sharing your WordPress posts on Google+, it’s probably due to duplicate OpenGraph tags, which might have been caused by the latest update to Jetpack, which added OpenGraph tags in version 2.0. If you’re already running a plugin that outputs the “og:” tags in your document head, you’ll have to disable one or the other. For...
oEmbed in WordPress Comments
If you’d like to enable embeds (Twitter, YouTube, etc) in WordPress comments, check out Evan’s neat little plugin. As opposed to many other such plugins, Evan’s approach is very simple and far more future proof.
WordPress Plugin Review Discussion
Otto, Brian Krogsgard, Ben Lobaugh, Erick Hitter, Jake Goldman, Kailey Lampert, Shane Pearlman, John Hawkins, Patrick Garman, Ryan Frankel, Andrew Norcross. Google Hangouts seemed to work pretty well! I don’t have a strong opinion about any of the points they discussed, but I would love to see an option to flag a particular plugin with a security issue, and obviously, write what the issue...
Updating Plugins Feels Good
I have updated two plugins I wrote a long time ago, which haven’t been updated in years, and were not fully compatible with the recent versions of WordPress. It felt very good, especially since I managed to rewrite both plugins in only a few hours, and looking at my old code made me realize how much I have learned.
I feel like I should do this more often.
Convert NextGen Galleries to WordPress Galleries
I was using NextGen Gallery for quite some time here on my blog, and it was all going well until WordPress introduced its own gallery shortcode, custom post types and more, which NextGen never adapted to. After migrating the blog a couple of times I was tired of all the conflicts, so I stopped using galleries, disable the plugin and lived happily even after, until… Until Jetpack Carousel...
WordPress as an Issue Tracker
With the recently updated P2 Resolved Posts plugin, your WordPress blog can now be a full-blown issue tracker, given that it’s running the awesome P2 Theme. You can see it in action on make.wordpress.org/systems, where red posts are unresolved issues, and green posts are resolved. Sidebar widgets can also help list all your current unresolved posts as well as recently resolved ones...