Wordpress SOS

The theme features widget-ready sidebars, which can accommodate several different image dimensions (suitable for button and banner ads). The theme also supports the default CSS alignment and caption classes in WordPress 2.6 and above, and it is the first Performancing Theme to support new WordPress 2.7 features out of the box:

* Threaded and paginated comments
* Post classes
* Image captions and gallery classes

The download file is in two versions. One for WordPress 2.7, and another for previous versions (though I cannot guarantee that it will work for WordPress versions older than 2.5).

• Too Newsy 1.0 for WordPress 2.6.x and below
• Too Newsy 1.0b for WordPress 2.7
• http://themes.performancing.com/themes/announcing-the-too-newsy-theme-for-wordpress/

See a live theme preview here.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/01/wordpresstv/

WPSOS is looking for new writers to produce new and unique content. The Content needs to be yours own writing and has to be WordPress related.

WPSOS is willing to pay you for your content, prices will be worked out based on the content type and size. Pay is around $10 at the moment.

Please use the content form to submit your contents information, so we can carry on communicating over email.

Idea’s for your content

• Top WordPress SEO tips
• How to code your own theme
• Top WordPress Hacks
• How to code your own plugin
• And other WordPress Related Stuff

Happy Writing

This is a unique WordPress theme which you will not find anywhere on the Internet. The unique feature about this theme is that it divides the blog posts into three separate columns. So, if you have set your blog to show 9 posts on the home page, they will be divided into 3 columns consisting of 3 posts each.

The theme also features a pull-down sidebar which is totally unobtrusive and contains three widgetized sidebars. ClearPress is Gravatar-ready, Image Gallery ready, and consists of beautifully styled comments and archive pages.

ClearPress has been tested on IE7, Firefox and Safari browsers without any problems. The CSS for the theme is commented and easy to modify for any WordPress user.

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WordPress SOS will no longer be doing website of the week. But Don’t get worryed we have a WP Gallary.

Feel free to submit your sites using the contact form.

The WordPress development blog has posted about what they plan for 2.8

Read about the 2.8 plans

The Wordpress content management system (CMS) is a pretty fast and optimized software. However by using lots of plugins and big  themes can really slow it down.

1)  Your Theme

Images

• Have you checked you theme for over use of the ever populare .png? png’s are a really nice tool used on the internet but are often over used were a simple gif or even jpg could have being used, or even the case were css background-color could have being used

Comment tags

• If you template is full of comments like <!– Header –> You might as well remove them as they waste space and take time to process. Tip! you can always have a commented version saved on your pc for easy editing.

Compression For CSS

• There are some real simple ways to compress your css and js on your site. First off, make a copy of your current CSS file and add the suffix “.php” to the file name. If your CSS file was named style.css your new file would be named style.css.php

• Then open header.php and find
• <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

  and replace with
• <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>.php" type="text/css" media="screen" />.

• Open up style.css.php and add at the top
• <?php if(extension_loaded('zlib')){ob_start('ob_gzhandler');} header("Content-type: text/css"); ?>
• Then add at the bottom
  <?php if(extension_loaded('zlib')){ob_end_flush();}?>

Compression For JS

• Same as above change filename.js to filename.js.php then also change in your header
  <script type="text/javascript" src="filename.js"></script>
  to
  <script type="text/javascript" src="filename.js.php"></script>
• Then add to the top of filename.js.php
  <?php
header("Content-type: text/javascript; charset: UTF-8");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
$offset = 60 * 60 * 24 * 3;
$ExpStr = "Expires: " .
gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",
time() + $offset) . " GMT";
header($ExpStr);
?>

Make It Static

• In your wordpress template header the style sheet and ping backs are dymanicy created you can simple add the path in manualy read more

2) Plugins

• If you are not using the plugin remove it. Plugins add server load as they are normaly called on ever single page load.
• Also worth a read http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/01/25/wordpress-optimisation-control-when-plugins-are-loaded/

3) Build In Cache

• Did you know Wordpress will try and cache all kinds of database queries as files on disk? It’s so simple. Just add the following to your wp-config.php:
• // Enable the WordPress Object Cache:
  define(ENABLE_CACHE, true);
• I have not has time to test this feature out fully, but believe it works well after reading many blogs
• Cache plugin article coming soon!!

The plugin means you can have the number of times the latest official WordPress has being downloaded in your any were on yoursite. Every time you refresh the page the download count will be updated according to the WordPress counter. Not sure what server loads this will add.

This is the first plugin coded by wpsos.com in a string on many more.

Download here

December 11, 2008, WordPress 2.7 was announced and released to the public.

20 hours later, Ryan Boren announced that there have been 100,000 downloads in those first few hours, spinning the WordPress Counter.

Now with some simple maths we can work out wordpress must have some  huge server with

531,182*1.2mb ( wordpress 2.7 size) = 622.47656 gigabytes or 0.607887 terabytes. Thats a huge amount of traffic.

A clean and simple two-column theme supporting widgets.

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This theme is based on the Emplode website template

If you are using the theme why not post your url in the comments