First-look at WordPress 3.3 Beta
Yesterday, the 20th of October 2011, WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 was released. With an array of minor and major changes, this is still just a Beta copy but gives great incite into what’s to come. An in-depth list of changes are available for Beta 1 and Beta 2 on their blog. The WordPress development team are aiming to release the full version of version 3.3 by the end of November.
Read More »Stop CSS Caching After a Change in WordPress
If you’re in the process of developing a WordPress theme, browser caching isn’t necessary and it can be a pain because your theme won’t always update after you have made a change. On the other hand caching plays a crucial role in the speed and download times of websites. So what are we to do? In WordPress it’s actually very simple, if you know what you’re doing, to set up a function to force the browser cache into re-downloading the CSS file again. Depending on your level of PHP knowledge, there is a plugin already built for this task called CSS Cache Buster, or you can write your own function.
Read More »Load jQuery from Google CDN in WordPress
WordPress, by default, includes a local copy of jQuery which gets loaded up on your website and also used by the WordPress Admin Dashboard. This is great because it makes life easier but wouldn’t it be even greater if WordPress used a copy of jQuery which was stored on Google’s CDN (or jQuery’s CDN for that matter). Well, with a tiny bit of theme editing this is possible.
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