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Someone Is Hijacking Your Top Commentators List

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This has been posted before, in fact it is actually quite old news but there are many blog owners that seem to be unaware or have not heard this information yet so I figured I would do my part and clue in those of you that seem to have missed out on this news. Many site owners who appreciate the comments their readers make have been using a plugin to reward their top commentators by putting a link back to [...]

YSlow Optimization Part 2 – Expire Headers, Compression, CSS and Javascript

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Happy Friday and welcome to Part 2 in my series on YSlow Optimization. In this installment we are going to discuss the benefits of implementing expire headers, using proper compression and how to effectively include CSS and javascript files. The methods I will go over today are not the only way to accomplish these tasks but are what I personally feel to be an effective way to do so. I will break this post down into several sections to make [...]

YSlow Optimization Part 1 – Make fewer HTTP requests

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Welcome to part one of my little series on using YSlow to optimize your website, if you haven’t read and followed the instructions in my previous post titled How To Use YSlow To Speed Up Your WordPress Site please go check it out now, follow the instructions to get the needed tools and plugins before returning to this post for the meat and potatoes portion of today’s instruction. In this series I will be breaking down the different categories and [...]

Interesting Effect From Changing Feedburner Settings

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In a funny circle of blog commenting today, a friend of mine over at ChefPatrick.com received an email from one of my readers letting him know that a plugin I use called commentluv, which adds a link back to the last blog post by commenters here was generating feedburner links instead of links back to his site directly, not that this is a huge deal but like some others he decided to disable the statistic tracking feature in his feedburner [...]

How To Use Yslow To Speed Up Your WordPress Site

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In my quest to optimize my websites I have come across many tools and applications that have either been fantastic resources or complete wastes of time. It’s often hard to wade through the crap to find the few decent and useful ones that are available today and for many that are available the documentation is less than adequate. I am big on research, I like to gather as much information about things as I possibly can and come up with [...]

Why I Have Been So Busy Lately, Say Hi To Mya Elizabeth Distad

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I’ve been slacking in the posting department the past few weeks but I do have a pretty good excuse, and I figured I would write up a quick post and put up some pictures to show off my beautiful daughter who joined us on June 29th at 9:07PM. This brings our family up to 6 (my wife, our 3 sons, 1 daughter and myself) I think this is a good size for us and we now have another girl in [...]

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