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The Best WordPress Archive Ever

WordPress Wal — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:32:54 +0000

HOLYmac! I stumbled across a WordPress website today that is a real “WordPress: WOW!”. I was doing some research, trying to better understand the scoring variables of the Yahoo’s YSlow Firefox extension, specifically the Etags/Entity Tags, when I stumbled on dquinn.net. Wow.

Apart from an amazing example of WordPress design wizardry, Daniel Quinn shares some really awesome WordPress performance and optimisation tips. So not only was I blown away by the The Best WordPress Archive ever seen, I also managed to implement some of the page load tips into my current website optimisation obsession. dquinn.net is just one of those websites that you IMMEDIATELY subscribe to, in both RSS and twitter fashion. Do yourself a favour ……

WordPress Relative Date in 2 Simple Steps

WordPress Wal — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:36:19 +0000

HOLYmac! You can turn your WordPress website into a relative date ONLY World in these 2 easy steps.

We live in a relative World. And most of us are all-too-familiar with the “1o mins ago”, “1hr ago” date formats of FaceBook and Twitter. But converting their WordPress website to relative dates wasn’t that simple.

Now two really smart Dudes have made it possible to display the relative date ONLY, which is awesome. I think having both the date AND relative date is a bit of an overkill, so by using this plug-in + code hack method, you can show JUST the relative date. And it’s relatively simple to do.

Install this WordPress Plugin: WP-RelativeDate Plug-In (by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan)
Then modify the file using this WordPress code hack: (by Pariah S. Burke)

Hats off, and credit, to both parties for helping us make HOLYmac! a relative Date World.

Test Driving Thematic WordPress Framework

WordPress Wal — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Holy Mac! I’ve been ummmming and arrrhing about WordPress Frameworks for ages. I’ve also been doing some solid research. I know I want an easier WordPress development method, but I’m not 100% sold on the frameworks, for a few different reasons. For all the benefits, and there are many, I still sweat late at night about some of the short comings and/or compromises.

Anyway, you never do know until you try. So here goes. Right now, HOLYmac is running on Ian Stewart’s Thematic WordPress Framework, using the Thematic Power Blog Theme. We will give it a run and see what we think.

So we’ll be playing around with the layout and design, and it will no doubt be bumpy/messy/skew-if while we do so. This entire site is a test ground more than anything else, for both WordPress Frameworks and SEO purposes.