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Why Aren’t the Dates Showing Up in My WordPress Posts?

If you are a prolific writer you may have this problem: You are looking at your archive, index or search page results and notice that not all your posts are showing their respective post dates.  What’s the deal with that?
The deal is that the WordPress Loop will not print out the same day more than [...]

Increase SEO Keywords in your Posts

Here’s another little tidbit I picked up from WordCamp.  This is comes to you from Matt Cutts.  (For credentials, Matt has a Ph.D., has been with Google since 2009 and is currently head of Google’s Webspam team.  So, I trust this tip.)  Granted, this is not a huge thing, but still every little bit helps.  [...]

WordPress 2.8 Available Now

WordPress 2.8 is now available for download!  WordPress 2.8 is nicknamed “Baker” after jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. What you should notice from the begining is that this version of WordPress handles and works faster than previous versions. The nice folks at Automattic attribute this to how they have “changed the way WordPress does style [...]

YSlow and Compress Components with GZip

With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Compress components with gzip. When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component. Here is how to improve your site’s speed a bit – with two huge caveats:

You web server [...]

YSlow and Configure Entity Tags (ETags)

With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Entity Tags or ETags.  When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component.  Then you click on the “read more” link to learn how to fix the issue.  But when you [...]