Tagged ‘google’

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    Replacing Search in WordPress with Google’s Custom Search Engine
    Friday, September 4th, 2009

    If you have a ring of web properties that are powered by WordPress, why not link them all together to drive traffic through a custom Google search? WordPress's search engine is notoriously unhelpful because it sorts search results by date instead of relevancy. If you use Google Custom Search, when you search using your souped-up Google Custom Search box, you'll land on the new search template, and Google will load the results (almost instantaneously) in a paginated iframe.

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    Speed Up Your WordPress: Mastering Yahoo!’s Thirteen Performance Rules
    Friday, April 24th, 2009

    The problem is that while the info is definitely out there, it's not all in one place (at least as far as I've browsed). Moreover, there are a couple of specific applications of the speed tricks that haven't been clearly laid out before (particularly, applying Cache-Control headers to dynamic images generated by the WordPress Facelift plugin, or the ideal .htaccess settings if your host is MediaTemple). In the interest of time (and laziness, our one true virtue), I've compiled an easy-to-apply series on YSlow that will get your WordPress sped up in no time.

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    The Unavoidables: Don’t Make Me Download a Lot of Crap; or, Sometimes You Just Deserve an F From YSlow, You Shameless Self-Promoter
    Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

    In all seriousness, however, Yahoo! recommends some (semi-doable) solutions. One idea is to combine all your CSS background images into one enormously fat image, and then use background-position to display portions of that image in different visual areas of the page.

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    365 Days of WordPress
    Thursday, April 9th, 2009

    Let this post be the starting point. Every time I write in this special series, you'll see a header like you do above indicating its relationship to the whole. My plan is to post one article about using WordPress to its fullest once a day, starting tomorrow, for one year.* I've been notoriously bad about pumping content into this blog, but I think since I live and breathe WordPress these days, I'll be able to pull this one off.

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    Google: Wintermute or Neuromancer?
    Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

    I love science fiction, so I can't help it when news like Microsoft's hostile takeover of Yahoo! invites the possibility that the end result of these web conglomerates' struggles—that is, the battle between Google and Microsoft over who will control cyberspace—will be something out of science fiction: the unveiling of a speculative "Internet operating system," and our final transitioning into a truly Gibsonesque cyberspace.