Gravatar slows down page loading speed. The article has some good suggestions on speeding up comments and I’m most curious with “2. Load comments dynamically (e.g. a button that says “click here to view comments”).” Anyone knows a theme that does this? Once page loading speed is taken into account in Google’s ranking algorithm, that should be a much more requested feature.
A tutorial on adding description to your WordPress 3.0 menu links. Might be a nice update for Pico.
Have your own short domain name for the purpose of shortlinking? Here’s an easy way to combine that with your WordPress install.
GWT is a great, frequently updated features like showing you search queries volume, malware and crawl error diagnostics and links to your site. If you don’t use it yet, you probably need to. This will help you get started.
I would recommend this either if you want more flexibility or to learn how to code a contact form.
This attack is very interesting because it is not visible to the normal user and the spam (generally about Viagra, Nexium, Cialis, etc) only shows up if the user agent is from Google’s crawler (googlebot). Also, the infection is a bit tricky to remove and if not done properly will keep reappearing.
Typography nerd rejoice. Works in Safari and Chrome, also used by Firefox by default for texts above 20px.
An updated (written in April 2010), well researched, CC-licensed Web safe fonts cheat sheet, available both in low-res PNG and high-rest PDF. Even the article is useful as well.
The Timaru Mental Health Support Trust website, made for charity by Team USA (comprised by web superstars like Jason Santa Maria, Dan Mall, Liz Danzico and Automattic’s John Ford) during the FullCodePress competition, is actually a clever child theme of 2010.
More recap by JSM, Daniel Mall, and Liz Danzico.
The simpler way to code comment form (once you understand how hooks and filters work).
I like it, I think it’s short and easy to understand.
A lot of good traffic can be driven to a site because of comments being indexed by search engines; would hiding them by a “click to view” button completely block Google from the comments?
I’ve had a page grow to have hundreds of comments and while I wasn’t using any caching plugins at the time, I was using plenty of others. I didn’t notice any slowdown, even though I’m on a simple shared host. How many comments are we talking about here?
That said, SuperCache or any of the other caching plugins should negate the issue without reducing usability (adding buttons to view things that users take for granted typically isn’t a moving usability in the right direction).
I don’t know of a theme that does this, but I have seen it here;
http://briancray.com/
To be honest, I haven’t checked it out to see if he is just loading the data and hiding it, or he pulls the data in afterwards with Ajax or something. His site is pretty fast though.
I like to use Google’s Page Speed plugin to check my caching and expires configuration. That’s how I found out that my old host didn’t support the .htaccess changes, which are needed I think for SuperCache to work.
The Depo Masthead theme does this. But the premise is wrong, Gravatars (or any images) aren’t going to hurt you in the Google rankings or we would have seen a massive drop-off in traffic on WP.com.
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