Author Archives: Jeremy Clark

About Jeremy Clark

Small town IT worker with interests in all things technological and technical. Biggest interests are in web development especially the WordPress publishing platform and the community supporting it. Currently developing and maintain the free WordPress theme Techozoic. I'm also always available for hire.

WordPress, Caching, and Compression

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

After reading an interesting article dealing with optimizing your WordPress blog I decided to optimize mine. I detail how I cut page load times in half by simply enabling caching and compression in an Apache web server. Continue reading →

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Comment Problem Fixed

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

If anyone has tried to comment and couldn’t the problem is now fixed. While cleaning my database I accidentally deleted a needed field in the comment table. No big deal I readded it and now up and going again. So … Continue reading →

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WordPress Theme Dev Tip – Dynamic Stylesheets

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

A dynamic stylesheet using php is a powerful thing, when accompanied by a user options page it can really make a theme. I’ve recently done this to my Techozoic theme, and I’m going to share how this works and some time saving tips. Continue reading →

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Dynamic Stylesheets using PHP

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

Recently while doing some work on my theme for WordPress I came across a very helpful idea. Using PHP in a stylesheet to make it more dynamic. The basic idea is to use PHP variables and define certain elements that repeat in various places such as a color code to make it easily changeable by only having to change one line instead of searching for and replacing multiple times. Other examples are fonts, images, widths, even whole sections of code could be shown or hidden with the use of variables and an if statement. Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 Mockups

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Jeremy Clark

Mozilla has starting thinking about Firefox 4 and with their new mock ups have starting throwing ideas around. There are two different versions as of now, tabs below address bar and one with the tabs above the address bar. Continue reading →

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