Turkey is once again in the news with yet another ban of a famous website. While they banned all of Youtube for videos that made fun of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk they now decided to ban Wordpress.com because of a handful of blogs that supposedly insulted the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar.
Ghacks Wordpress theme released
I finally managed to code the Ghacks Wordpress theme the way that I can release it to the public. The theme is free for everyone who wants to use it as long as the link in the footer to my blog is remaining. The Wordpress theme is optimized to gain great exposure in the most popular search engines as well as monetized perfectly.
Wordpress 2.2.2. released
The Wordpress development team is releasing new versions of their popular blogging script faster and faster. It seems that I’m doing nothing else than to update my blog with the latest version of Wordpress. While not all updates are required some are important to apply as soon as they are released to close security vulnerabilities that could lead to a compromised blog if a hacker detects that your blog is not running the latest version.
Finally a new theme
I’m very proud to announce that I finally had the time to setup the new custom Ghacks Wordpress theme which you will hopefully like as much as I do. There are still a few minor glitches here and there which I have to take care of but it should be pretty solid as of now.
Optimize Wordpress loading times
I’m using Wordpress as the blogging software of choice for Ghacks and all of my other blogs. After reading Paul Stamatious article on optimizing CSS for Wordpress I decided to give it a try and see if page loading times would benefit at all from it. I also had to check if the optimization would change the way my blog would be displayed or would throw up errors. I began by analyzing the page loading times of my blog without any optimization. The result for the frontpage was that my blog used 166K and that users with ISDN (128 Kbit) would have to wait 18.55 seconds before my site was fully loaded.
List of Wordpress Plugins installed
I was getting some emails lately asking about the plugins that I have installed here at ghacks. I know that many webmasters read my blog and I thought it would be nice to write about the plugins. I also thought to write a little series of articles about setting up a blog with your own domain, please let me know if that sounds interesting enough. I have been using Wordpress since the beginning and find it really easy to administrate.
