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By Michael on January 14, 2010  |  Comments 2

Image Lazy Loader for Wordpress

Lazy loading flattens the spike caused on the initial loading of pages that contain lots of images and removes a few server hits in an attempt to get a page displayed as quickly as possible and improve response times across the site.

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By Michael on August 01, 2009  |  Comments 7

FrontPage Slideshow Plug-In For Wordpress

JoomlaWorks’ Frontpage Slideshow is one of the best commercial featured post slideshows available which unfortunately doesn’t support Wordpress. This plug-in allows you to easily insert a slideshow into any template.

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By Michael on May 21, 2009  |  Comments 0

Why Wordpress

Wordpress originally started out as a blogging platform – ie, a date-based collection of pages that end users could easily create by entering text in an on-screen editor. Posts could be categorised, allowing for easy retrieval of content with similar subject matter, and it supported a comments system which had generally been the preserve [...]

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Category Filtering

Sometimes you need to return posts, or records from custom tables, that are in multiple categories using either an AND or OR search. This generic function shows how.

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Fixing Counterize

Counterize is a fairly popular plug-in which provides traffic reports from within Wordpress. Unfortunately it contains serious bugs which may affect the performance of your site.

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Linking to Internal Posts

One of the most fustrating things for Wordpress content managers is linking to other posts or pages within the system. A simple shortcode plug-in helps solve the problem.

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Selectively Include Javascript Files

The solution to minimise the overhead of scripts is to only load them when strictly required by the page content. Unfortunately Wordpress makes that a challenging exercise.

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Disappearing Custom Post Data

If you use a plug-in or template code to place custom fields on the post or page editor screen, changes to Wordpress may result in your custom data being deleted or lost.

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Counting Search Results

These days, most people expect to see the total number of items in a list of search results, and yet most themes don’t provide any feedback on the number of matched posts.