I could likely write another post complaining about the difficulties of the 100 days of blogging challenge that I am taking part in, but what fun would that be? Instead, I think I should just say that I have missed a few days as I find it especially difficult on the weekends to find the time to post.
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Remove Javascript and CSS versioning from WordPress
While trying to optimize my site a while back I came across some issues with Javascript and CSS versions causing caching issues, or rather not being cached. This lack of caching of the Javascript and CSS files was lowering the site score on many testing sites including WebPageTest. I searched around a bit and came … Read More
New theme and no comments
I have been using the Genesis Framework for sometime now on this site and just about every other site that I manage, but I decided that we needed a break from one another… at least for just a little bit. In keeping up with WordPress and its development I figured I would give the new … Read More
Installing HipHop Virtual Machine
I recently read an article about how you can install HipHp Virtual Machine (HHVM) for a 2x+ speed boost on your site. The newest version of WordPress works 100% with HHVM, but unfortunately some of the plugins out there don’t. I decided the pros out weighed the cons and decided to install HHVM on my development server. Outlined below are the steps for installing it on your own.
wget -O - http://dl.hhvm.com/conf/hhvm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - echo deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu saucy main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hhvm.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hhvm sudo /usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh sudo update-rc.d hhvm defaults sudo /etc/init.d/hhvm restart sudo /usr/bin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/php php /usr/bin/hhvm 60