I have been asked this question quite a few times and I never have a perfect answer. It is obviously an important question to ask but it can be answered in many different ways based on preferences, need for plugins, optimization techniques used and a variety of other factors. Weblog Tools Collection uses a lot of plugins and is very query heavy but the in spite of that, the front page uses 59 queries to generate itself. I think the default (on a vanilla WordPress install on the default theme) is 27 or something of that nature. The larger the number of queries, the slower the page is going to load and the more load you are going to put on your MySql server. All of the above is true if you do not use inline or regenerative caching mechanisms. The caveat on this blog is that its plugins and […]
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AVH Extended Categories A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget. AVH Amazon The avh-amazon plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry. dilw It lets you see displayed the Daily Dilbert. It uses the DilbertDailyStrip RSS feed. Enhanced Recent Posts Enhanced Recent Posts is a widget that comes as a replacement to the built-in widget. As the first enhancement, you can choose if you want to show posts from all categories, from some categories in particular or from all categories but some (exclude categories).
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes Black Green It’s simple, elegant and ultra-minimal. The theme uses an Ajax Accordion script to toggle display of posts and the archives/sidebar page. Two Column Themes Simplifi Simplifi is a very simple theme, for people who publish a lot of content and don’t want a heavy design to waste space. BasicBlue Quick Loading Theme, Widget ready, Minimalist Design, 2 Columns, Banner Ads Ready. RS10 This free WordPress theme has a homepage template, posts of which can be configured through a config file. Widget-ready sidebar and Gravatar support. Three Column Themes Personal Mag 3 Columns. Widget Ready. Minimalist Design. Awesome Menu Hover! Up Front Up Front is a two/three column widget, Gravatar and Adsense ready WordPress theme.
[Continue Reading...]Role Scoper Role Scoper is a comprehensive drop-in replacement for capability enforcement and administration in WordPress. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis. wpSEO [EDIT] Link removed since it is a paid plugin. The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page is in German. English and German files are included in the download Related Posts by Categories für WordPress The Plugin looks for related posts from the same categories as the current article. With numerous customization of the call to function. Page in German
[Continue Reading...]Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for WordPress This plugin allows you to add RSVP and guestlist functionality to your WordPress site. Exec-PHP The Exec-PHP plugin allows tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages aswell as in text widgets to be executed just as in usual PHP files. Tippy Tippy is a friendly little WordPress plugin that gives you a way to include highly configurable tooltips in your WordPress site. ESV Plugin This plugin will retrieve Bible passages from the ESV Web Service and display them on your page as a tooltip, a block quote, a link, or just the reference. Feed reading Blogroll This plugin provides a sidebar-widget and a template-tag that add an enhanced blogroll to your sidebar. It checks on all your linked sites for which you saved a separate feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred. Email Commenters An easy way to […]
[Continue Reading...]StumbleUpon Favorites StumbleUpon Favorites is a widget based on the default RSS widget that was developed to allow the sharing of bookmarks with blog visitors. This plugin makes it much easier to use and customize the list grabbed from your own StumbleUpon account. Automated Picture Posting Plugin PICS (Picture Increment Cron System) is a WordPress Plugin designed to allow you to automatically post pictures to your WordPress blog at a administrator determined timed interval. WP Wall “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page). Live Blogroll This plugin shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax. When the user hover above the link the rss feed from the site is automatically detected and a number of recent posts […]
[Continue Reading...]Two Column Themes Thematic Thematic is a two column WordPress development theme with widgetized areas above and below the content, Options for Multi-Author blogs and many other features. Portofino Portofino is a postcard from the Italian Riviera – once fishing village, now resort of the rich and powerful who wouldn’t be seen dead in Monte Carlo next door. Portofino is also a 2 column fixed-width WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets. Minimalist Vintage Minimalist Vintage WordPress Theme, was created based on original theme for WebMinimalist.com. You can choose to make a site with Static Page on the home page or make regular blog as your home page. Three Column Themes Atari Command Atari Command is a three column theme based on the arcade console. It has place for 155px images in the sidebar. EDIT: Link removed due to copyright complaints Ndomche Summary Theme A clean three column version […]
[Continue Reading...]Matt and company have announced that WordPress.com now officially supports Google Gears. Gears is an extension which works with the browser to enhance web based applications. It’s known for creating local database and file storage, while running javascript in the background to update that content without slowing down the browser. Gears support in WordPress.com means you will be able to store all images and other web page components of the WordPress administration panel locally which will speed up access to those files while reducing unnecessary web traffic. To enable this feature, click on the TURBO link in the WP.COM dashboard area. This will be located in the upper right portion of the screen. You will need to have the GEARS extension installed before you will be able to take advantage of this new feature. [EDIT] Rundown on Fool’s Wisdom of Google Gears Privacy concerned raised. Thanks Lloyd!
[Continue Reading...]Two Column Themes Word Press’d Word Press’d is a free two column WordPress theme based on the the WordPress Admin interface. It’s like viewing the admin screen on the outside. One Column Themes Notepad The new Notepad Theme is a simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding that is ideal for personal coaches, consultants and independent professionals.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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