Update (March 15th): Since writing this the redesign and hosting move have both happened, and things seem to be running quite smoothly. And this time I installed Akismet rather than WP Spam Free to deal with the spam.
After my last post, in which I briefly sang the praises of Wordpress, I became increasingly troubled by the horribly slow page load times of this blog, so I spent an hour or two last night trying to speed things up. It’s a while since I installed WP Super Cache, and all this time I’ve been thinking that my troubles were over. I even tried pretending that the occasions when it took 10 seconds to load a page were just freak occurrences, only … read on »
Archive for February, 2010…
A Nice and Simple Photo Gallery Solution for MODx
My third MODx site is about to launch. It’s relatively simple (no forms!) so I had the chance to really concentrate on refining my architecture, and the work I’ve done will stand me in good stead for a while (unless I give in to the enticements of SilverStripe or ExpressionEngine, or just ditch the PHP altogether and finally get up-and-running with Django).
“Refining his architecture? What does he mean?” For me, learning to use MODx well has been about working out how to combine templates, template variables, chunks and snippets in a logical and efficient structure. A good application – a small one, at least – should have a shape that you can envision (if you’re the kind of person who … read on »
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