Blog Enhancements

I decided to make a few enhancements to my blog this evening. I was meant to be doing something more productive, but I got sidetracked playing with WordPress 🙂
This site can be a bit sluggish at times due to the number of MySQL queries running (executing) at any given time, so Niall suggested that I should cache it.. I finally got round to doing so this evening.
WP-Cache basically stores a copy of the files on the system of the files on the system, so they don’t need to be compiled each time they are requested. It would obviously benefit a site with more traffic than this one, but I’m getting a bit tired of the random MySQL restarts that I’ve become accustomed to executing
I also added another minor Amazon hack – it needs some tweaking to get it working with the current release of WP and I’m not 100% happy with the way it’s displaying ….
I also installed a contact form and the “subscribe to comments” plugin.