October 2011
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Thank you, Steve Jobs
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September 2011
1 post
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Avoiding Duplicate Titles in WordPress Media...
Looking through Google Webmaster tools, I discovered a warning about duplicate title tags coming from WordPress media attachment pages, like this one.
Here is a quick fix (place inside the of header.php:
<?php if ( is_attachment() ) { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<?php } ?>
You can also adjust your title tag, to include some sort of prefix, like...
August 2011
9 posts
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APC Cache to the Rescue
On the advice of Aaron Collegeman, I installed APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on my server and noticed an immediate performance boost.
Two days later, my MediaTemple DV was crashing — usually when I was in the WordPress admin. Turns out, APC’s default is 32Mb of memory.
Again following Aaron’s advice (and help), we doubled APC’s memory allocation to 64 Mb. APC is...
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The Never Ending Performance Battle
Hint: this is not the direction to go in, if you’re working on site performance:
There are many frustrating aspects to dealing with performance. For example:
Google Webmaster tools says one thing.
Google Page Test tool says something else.
And Yahoo, via YSlow, says something else (and more of it).
But my server tends to agree with Google Webmaster tools this week.
Next up:
APC...
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The Story of Bright Cowork
Aldo sent me this video tonight. So proud of our tribe here in Winchester… an amazing group of people!
The prequel:
In 2004, I escaped the stress-fest known as the DC metro area and moved to the peaceful and beautiful Shenandoah Valley, effectively putting a mountain between DC and me.
By 2006, fully decompressed, I decided I’d made a terrible mistake and contracted a home...
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Sharing SharePress →
So happy to share this… Aaron really built something remarkable. WordPress posts to Facebook walls, with a ton of attention to the details.
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Optimizing Site Performance with Gzip Compression
As I continue on my site performance kick, I’ve found an excellent resource for compressing files using Gzip, to speed up a site.
Check out How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression.
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Eliminate duplicate titles in WordPress category...
Thanks to Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered that WordPress was generating duplicate titles for my Category and Tag list pages. Not good.
Say you have a Category named “Videos”. The Category list page shows 10 posts in that category, with “previous” and “next” links to see 10 more.
Like this:
1st Category page: http://www.notreble.com/videos
2nd...
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Improving site performance
I’ve been focusing a lot of attention on site performance research.
This is one of the best posts I’ve found on the subject: Improving web performance with Apache and htaccess by Samuel Santos.
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APIs for social and stats radar dashboard
Thinking about building radar-style dashboads for tracking sites. These APIs look like a great starting point:
Google’s Webmaster Tools API
Analytics Management API
Social Mention API
Facebook Insights API (examples)
Also interesting: Google’s Feed API (for blending feeds from Google News alerts, Twitter searches and other sources that offer RSS)