Karmona Pragmatic Blog » WordPress http://blog.karmona.com Pragmatic Software Management, Internet Trends, Life and more... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Just upgraded to WordPress 2.9 – Carmen http://blog.karmona.com/index.php/2009/12/22/wordpress-29-carmen-upgrade/ http://blog.karmona.com/index.php/2009/12/22/wordpress-29-carmen-upgrade/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:29:55 +0000 Moti Karmona | מוטי קרמונה http://blog.karmona.com/?p=595 CARMEN McRAE 150x150 Just upgraded to WordPress 2.9 – CarmenI have just upgraded to WordPress 2.9 – Carmen (named in honor of the jazz vocalist Carmen McRae) in less than 3 minutes…

WordPress 2.9 Highlights

* Global undo/”trash” feature
* Built-in image editor
* Batch plugin update and compatibility checking
* Easier video embeds
* Over 500 tickets, bugs and enhancements

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WordPress 2.8 Highlights

* Speed!!!
* Theme Browser and Installer
* Ability to add Custom Headers
* New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API
* New ways to customize dashboard widgets
* Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
* Configurable Views on Management Pages
* Faster Loading Admin Pages

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Coltrane seems to have a very cool and much faster new inteface  (150 people contribution) and I didn’t have any issues until now…

Much more details (+ visual introduction) on the WordPress.org blog.

 

Enjoy.

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Last weekend I was wasting time on my Blog performance and all I got is 10 sec. and this lousy post.

Quick profiling with FireBug and YSlow FireFox extensions have done great wonders with my amazingly slow, not-really-that-interesting, hosted (webhost4life) WordPress blog.

Main action items:

  • I have removed the sitemeter performance penalty widget
  • I have installed the WordPress Super Cache Plug-in which wasn’t that simple with my webhost4life hosting limitations.
  • I have removed couple of images and reduce the blog top image size from 80k to 5k (!!!)

Results:

  • Main blog page returns after ~1 sec.
  • I am still getting a lousy grade with the YSlow tests (62) but it seems like the YSlow blog post announcement have failed too… (57 :)
  • Post pages are still slow (~2-4 sec.) but I know what I have to do the next time more than 1 million readers will complain…

Have fun!

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Google recent outage brought me to this new karmona.com hosted home – powered by WordPress.

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