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WordPress, Caching, and Compression
After reading this article dealing with “bulletproofing” a blog, I started looking at my own blog. Over the past few months as more and more great plugins come out that I depend on now, my page load times had started suffering. A load time of 14 seconds on a T1 was not unheard of, and it could get as bad as 20 seconds on some days. The article by Eric Amundson had a link to a couple of Firefox plugins that looked promising in helping diagnose ailing websites. One is Page Speed from Google. The other from Yahoo! called YSlow.
Web 2.0ing My Blog
As you can see I’ve be doing some minor cosmetic enhancements of my blog. I’ve redone the header and footer in my newest favorite image manipulation the GIMP. I’ve added the Web 2.0 sidebar labels with the text being reflected. The new gradient post background, newer lighter colors of blues and greys. I’ve recently added the Digg labels and of course Technorati Tags have been a mainstay for quite some time.
I’ve also taken the time to setup a dev blog where I can test all my latest ideas and not worry about screwing up my live page. I’m also currently beta testing the newest blog software I use called WordPress. I’ve also just starting using virtual hosts with Apache and I don’t know how I managed with them. It is so simple to setup and new sub domain with Apache. Just copy a few lines of a config file change the directory and host name and your off. I think I might document the process of installing multiple WordPress blogs on an Apache server for those who might need it. Stay tuned.
Problem Solved
I’ve gotten my blog back to 100%. The problem was with an incorrect verison of php. So I complied the latest verison in the 4.x branch and that seems to have fixed the problems. It was a battle figuring out what was happening but I’ve won.
I’m having trouble
My new server seems to be acting up a little bit. For some reason one small area of my blog isn’t accessible any more as when you try to access it apache dies. I’ve been searching google for a day and a half now with now luck. The error could be due possibly to a misbehaving plugin not quite sure yet. As of right now I don’t have access to actually work on the server, I’ve got a couple things I want to try though.
