Found some nice themes
Yesterday I came across a nice website with just a few themes, all of them very good looking: wpshower
Speeding Up wordpress with gmetrix
Found gmetrix . This website can test the speed of youe site and gives you tips on how to speed up your site. Looks like it is worthwhile to use and especially test themes with it. They have a special page for wordpress optimization See if you kan turn on KeepAlive on the server itself....
The right theme to modify
I have been looking at a lot of themes for WordPress. especially one that is either easy to modify or on to make child themes with. So far I have had no luck, I am looking for a theme that does not use too much of its own style of coding and functionality but stays...
Simple Taxonomy
I tried a simple taxonomy for my photographs site, I can now add Location and People tags, works quite well, I am afraid it will take a long time to add all those tags to my pictures. Oh yes, the plugin used is the simple taxonomy by yoast.
Nginx roundup
So…. setting up nginx has a few pitfals, one thing that you need to do is that in nginx.conf you have to specify the location of the site on the server for php, otherwise it will think that the $_server['document_root'] is the default location that nginx was compiled with. I don’t like the fact that...
Nginx and wordpress
I looked into setting up nginx. This is supposed to be a faster web server than apache. For set up and installation you better search for information (Google for nginx php-fpm and your OS). The biggest issue is the rewrite rules used by apache and located in .htaccess files. I had tried nginx before and...
Using PhotoQ for a photo blog
PhotoQ is nice to use as a blog/album to use for your digital camera, either as a public blog or a restricted one if you plan to post all your private pics. Download the latest version, it is at the time of writing a beta but I have had no issues yet. Install other plugins...
Protecting your blog, a few notes
When you are using WordPress as a site with data that you don’t want everybody to see you might want to avoid public access to the site. Plugins to the rescue: Askapache Password protect: I could not configure it so not tested. Password Protect Plugin for WordPress : “This plugin will force all visitors to...
Follow up on A WordPress setup for photographs
I discovered that there was a plugin for the stuff I wanted: PhotoQ. Together with the right theme I am pleased, if only if would be able to auto-rotate and prevent images ending up twice in the database. The theme is not 100%, I had to modify parts and it is not build completely to...
A WordPress setup for photographs
My collection of photographs from my digital camera’s is getting quite big. I have tried flickr Gallery and a few other things but they just did not do100% of what I wanted. I think I can do this with WordPress by doing the following: The right theme: Tanzaku maybe. a plugin to add photographs: Read...
Welcome to the new blog
It has been a while since I last looked at WordPress. And I am pleasantly surprised how much it has improved and evolved. It looks like it is usable as a CMS. The blog will be used to test and experiment with various settings, options, modifications and plugins.