One of the major issues in our redesign of MyBiggestComplaint.com was trying to cut down on queries. Comment plugins are query monsters and resource hogs that can slow a site.
For MyBiggestComplaint.com, we switched to Brian’s Latest Comments as rewritten by Donncha because that version caches comments. Cacheing comments cut our page queries in half on […]

As the internet becomes one big huge social networking blob, the avatar is becoming the standard for visible user identity. Massive social networking sites like MyBlogLog have created repositories of avatar snapshots that are distributed across other sites in sidebars and blog comments.
The use of a central repostitory like MyBlogLog to pull user avatars to […]

YSlow is a Firefox Add-on by Yahoo! that analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites.
Wordpress plugins kill your YSlow score. Everyone has always known that plugins can slow your blog on the backend, but YSlow reveals the drag some plugins can cause on the […]

I have no idea if this Wordpress plugin is a good idea or whether or not it works, but this is the way you should release a plugin.

I’ve heard it said before that “plugin authors get no love”. I agree, but Postreach Click Comments is a step in the right direction. So much a step […]

Are you a Wordpress Innovator? Is your site, design, plugin or application a Wordpress Innovation?
What is a Wordpress Innovation?
A Wordpress Innovation is someone or something that is pushing the limits of Wordpress as a standard blogging platform. A Wordpress Innovation takes the standard Wordpress framework and bends it just a little to the point where […]

Which icon is worse?

London Olympics 2012

Any Olympic Logo Ever

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We noticed several complaints at MyBiggestComplaint about the new logo for the London 2012 Olympics. What better forum to test the resolve of the logo than in Icon Battle. We obviously don’t have every Olympic logo represented, just a random sampling of the latest you might […]

We are releasing a 750px wide version of our popular YUI-Mainstream built on the framework of the YUI Grids CSS library. The theme is based upon the SEO Sandbox Theme by Ian Purton, which is a fantastic place to start for all theme developers thinking about making accessbile, standards compliant themes.

750px wide with 240px sidebar […]

Truemors debuted this week to (I think it’s fair to say) an initially negative response. The site seems to have survived the first onslaught of hardcore spammers and after reading Guy Kawaski’s response to an increasingly bitchy blogosphere, it seems the site is obviously well thought out and Guy definitely has some thick skin.
Truemors is […]