Page-Speed and garland-revisited

By Simon prosser | 15th November 2009 |

Someone recently pointed out to me that i should install Page-Speed for Firefox and fix some of the errors in my theme.

Here is what another site said about the plugin..

Attention all webmasters and web developers! Google wants to help you improve the performance of your web pages. This week, Google released a tool called Page Speed which is capable of identifying different ways to make your site or web pages run faster.

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[HOWTO] Display number of spams stopped since your blog started.

By Simon prosser | 25th July 2009 |

So i wanted to display total number of spam coments blocked by askismet. Checking the the plugins source i found this function which returns the number: [php]get_option(‘akismet_spam_count’);[/php] Getting the blogs first post date was the tricky bit and required a database query: [php]$firstpost = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = ‘post’ AND post_status =…

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An email from wordpress!

By Simon prosser | 26th May 2009 |

Today I uploaded v1.0.1 of garland-revisited to the wordpress site, a few minutes later i got an email from wordpress.org! Trying to pull in wp-config.php or wp-load.php directly is a bad idea.  The actual location of those files can be in a nearly infinite number of locations, so trying to reference them directly is guaranteed…

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