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Speeding Up WordPress

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If your website is slow then people will either get annoyed with it or simply not visit it. Bottom line - you can lose money.I met Donncha in real life for the first time a few months ago and one of the things that I was anxious to talk to him about was Wordpress' speed or lack thereof, as both my own sites and those of clients etc., seemed to suffer from performance … [Read more...] about Speeding Up WordPress

Google Pagerank Update Still In Progress

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There was a time when a Google PageRank update took but a few days to complete, but the current update seems to have been dragging on for ages. An alternative theory being that they've moved the model completely OR that they had to redo it... In any case I've just been informed that IWF *should* get a PR of 4! Why do I care? I can think of a couple of reasons, but the most … [Read more...] about Google Pagerank Update Still In Progress

SkyCon Talk Topic

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Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic

Light WordPress Plugins?

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A couple of the plugins that I used to have installed on here were bloated and won't be coming back anytime soon. Others, however, are incredibly useful, but I do worry about the silly number of SQL queries that they can add. Brian's latest comments, for example, seems to add quite a few SQL queries which may not be necessary. Does anyone have an alternative that offers the … [Read more...] about Light WordPress Plugins?