Posts tagged 'wordpress'

  • Re-naming MySQL tables

    Here’s a handy little script which re-names all the MySQL tables in a database. I wrote this because Dreamhost added a prefix to my Wordpress installation. When I wanted to load the database on my local machine, I no longer wanted the prefix.

  • Who needs Wordpress?

    The majority of web sites are consumed. Visitors will stumble upon the site, read a few pages (if you’re lucky) and then disappear. Normally for every visitor to the site each webpage is generated dynamically. Each visitor has their own version of the web page for that particular moment of time. Is this really necessary? How often does the content on the web site you are visiting change?

  • Optimizing Thematic theme using YUICompressor

    After making my theme changes (as mentioned in the previous posts) I noticed that my Wordpress blog seems to take too long to load. Without examining how long should be acceptable I decided to make some small optimizations. If I’m thinking about how long something takes to load, then it is too slow.

  • Using LessCSS for Wordpress themes

    I’ve been playing around with modifying Wordpress themes again. Taking my existing “ogboumatic” theme and re-writting the CSS using Less CSS. LessCSS makes CSS much clearer by adding variables, embedded rules and mixins.

  • Modifying Wordpress themes

    It’s been a long time since I used Wordpress. I’ve been dabbling with different content management systems in my spare time and at work we’ve built our own bespoke Java web application. After spending the last few hours playing with Wordpress I’m impressed at how the project has developed and the plethora of plugins, extensions and themes available. There’s a lot of love out there for Wordpress - the project must be doing something right.