I was looking at the code of the newly-released Thesis 1.7 theme for WordPress, and I came across 2 filters that I hadn’t seen before: thesis_comments_closed thesis_comments_link_closed I wanted to find out more about these filters, so I googled them. To my surprise…there…
If you’re using the TweetMeme Retweet Button on your blog or website, and you’ve noticed it’s been slowing down your page load times, then this article is for you. I will discuss two common ways to install the Retweet Button–through…
There has been a lot of buzz lately about page speed. Matt Cutts has commented about how page speed might be added as a signal to Google’s ranking algorithm, sometime in the future. Google has released the Site Performance feature…
This is a followup response to Everfluxx, who wrote a post about the robots meta tags that Thesis inserts into archive pages. Everfluxx discovered that when you opt to add the noindex attribute to your pages’ robots meta tags, Thesis automatically assumes you…
The content below used to be on the page called “Updates.” I no longer need to keep track of changes to my site, so I’m moving this to a regular post under the WordPress category. This page simply lists all the…
Who should read this article? If you meet the following criteria, this post is for you: You use the Thesis theme for WordPress. You allow comments on your posts. Under Thesis Options, you have selected the option to “Show list of…
After installing WordPress, one of the first things I needed to configure was my permalink structure. I read several articles on how to do this, but none of them had the information I was looking for. In fact, I was…
ucwutididthar? I titled this post “Thesis Phi-Column Layout,” instead of “Three-Column Layout?” Ha ha ha! Get it?! No, of course you don’t. No one does…not even me. But let’s continue anyway. This post is for anyone who meets the following criteria:…
Here is a quick tip I just discovered while messing around with my custom.css style sheet. This tip shows you the CSS code that turns this: into this: Firefox vs. Safari vs. Chrome Since rounded corners are relatively new, the…
I need to put up some posts so I have examples to look at when I’m adjusting my blog’s formatting and layout configuration. My incredible SEO ideas will come later, but for now, I’m simply going to document my experiences with WordPressand the…