Social buttons are most common methods to sharing your post to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+. But after added your favourite social network script, be it like buttons or twitter widgets to your site or blog and then you notice that the load time of you page went drastically down. What happened?
Octopress is a framework design for Jekyll. It’s static site generator and that’s why it lacks of advance feature like WordPress (Read more about it if you would like to move from WordPress to Octopress). Jekyll support plugins so you can use it for improve your website that’s based on Octopress.
From last post, you’ve known some tips to help your blogging proccesses with Octopress easier than normal. In this post, I will continuing show you some advanced tweaks to improve Octopress power.
I’ve migrated one of WordPress Websites to OctoPress. It’s easy to done but OctoPress won’t works well as expected. I spent a week to corrected entire post contents to make it compatible with Markdown format and fix some problems encountered when running new blogging platform. Today, I write this post to share my experiences after migrated from WordPress to OctoPress, hope it can help you if you have the same problem.
Do you know the Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol can affect social media trafic? When you submit a url to social networks, they will find the social information which you defined between head tags, if it’s not available, they will get its in the post content.
Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol are common names of Google Authorship, Twitter Card, Facebook Open Graph …
Octopress is a great tool for programmers that want to start blogging without having to worry about customizing some static page generator or Wordpress. However I think I’d only use it for this personal blog and any other projects I created I would almost certainly use Wordpress.
I recomment you using post’s excerpt in the loop of post instead full content with more tag because you can introduting about your post better than automatic teasing a part from the content. Your post will be look more appealing.
By default, WordPress display the post content in loop with the_content() function in theme files, so your custom excerpt will not display as you want on the homepage (or blog page) without editting it. We can tell WordPress using the Excerpt instead the teaser by filter the_content() with your custom function in functions.php.
Google has launched a web service call webpagespeed, which you can use to test how faster your pages will load after enable their service on your website. They claim that Page Speed Service’s features can make sites between 25 and 60 percent faster. Google has always been a consumer-focused company and Page Speed Service is a proof. By optimizing the loading time of Web sites, Google is helping the users cut down on wait time and leaving them with more time to use the Web effectively.
There are many ways of including files in a WordPress document, however using WordPress’s built-in get_template_part(); function will help keep your files organized and clean by using a common WordPress taxonomy and structure. It simplifies your theme files and speeds up the development process by not having to constantly rewrite code.
During the development process of WordPress Child Theme you will planning remove some default scripts and styles or change the way to tell browser load them, then add your own to optimize the theme. This, of course, you should try to make as little HTTP requests as possible to keep your site up to speed, put your javascript in the bottom of the page to ensure faster rendering, and it also gets real tough to maintain all those separate files if many things have to change The good news is that WordPress has a built-in system that allows us to deregister these scripts and styles instead edit the parent theme files.
Child themes let you start with the basics of an existing theme, so you’re not having to reinvent the wheel. You can pick a theme that has the functionality and basic layout you need, but then customize everything about it as you would designing a theme from scratch. In this guide I want to introduce the basic concepts of building a WordPress child theme and why it’s such a good idea.
I just used a little SEO tweaks in the process of layout design. I never had an issue with Google Search and the pageviews and visitor increase day by day until one dreaded day. Google Search has updated with Penguin and Panda then my website fall down, one of them was almost disappear on Google Search Results. Here’s my story, full of panic, with a lot of failed attempts to “fix” the site and a “recovery” from ugliness creatures on the internet.