Wordpress

I have upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. It is a very nice piece of software that the WordPress development team has done a great job on. Some of the new features include: Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard Dashboard Widgets Multi-file upload with progress bar Bonus: EXIF extraction Search posts and pages Tag management Password strength meter Concurrent editing protection Few-click plugin upgrades Friendlier visual post editor Built-in galleries The upgrade this weekend turned up a Cookie bug in my URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy software, that I use to host WordPress on my Windows 2003 server. There will be an updating to the URL Rewriter coming soon to MSDN Code and Codeplex as well as a release on my companies website.

First off I would like to say that many of my readers are very intelligent, they picked up on a one line sentence in my last post about my new design and Coder Journal switching from Linux to Windows. I also moved hosts from GoDaddy’s shared Linux hosting. To GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated hosting on Windows. This proved difficult since URL Rewriting isn’t currently built in to IIS 6.0 like it is in Apache. I will talk a little about this setup in a later post. ...

New Theme My first major change was the development of my own theme. My old theme was clunky and overall I didn’t like the feel that it gave to my reader base. I became greatly discouraged looking for a new theme as most are more of a testament to art and less on readability and functionality. So I decided to create my own that had a very simple layout. Optimization of Load Time One of the things I hated about my other blog was the fact that I didn’t have control over how the HTML and thus JavaScript was laid out. Especially the JavaScript because I had duplication where I didn’t need it. The script that Technorati gives you is hardly optimized for load time because of duplication of a supporting script file. ...