We’re preparing to kick of a gallery here at Organized Themes to show off some of the great sites that are using our themes. To help get things started, we’re giving away a Theme Package for you (or a friend if you already have one) to the site that wins best design! Plus you’ll get
In my quest to speed up Organized Themes as much as possible, I’ve been experimenting with the settings of the excellent W3 Total Cache plugin and with my web host. Here’s what is working best for me according to Pingdom’s response times (see graph above). For me, hosting on VPS.net (4 nodes), I get better
As part of providing support, I often get an inside look at WordPress conflicts. If you’re troubleshooting your own site a great step is to disable all of your plugins and see if that fixes your problem. If it does, then you just need to reactivate your plugins one at a time until you discover
Here are some useful plugins I’ve used to help out churches that I think you might find helpful. Staff Directory Many churches and organizations like to have an online directory of their staff. While you can create this with the visual editor in WordPress, it generally doesn’t turn out as well as you’d like. A
We’ve already seen how I saved 37% of my page load time by editing and removing a few unnecessary plugins in this post. Now I’m going to share a few more methods I used to cut another 3 seconds off my page load time. Load jQuery from Google My site, like most WordPress sites uses
No one likes a slow website. Have you ever wondered if the plugins you use in WordPress affect your site’s load time? Recently I began a quest to reduce my page load time significantly by making changes and checking the results with Google Webmaster Tools and Pingdom Tools. Here’s what I discovered about the plugins
I’m learning a lot of this on the fly and really have NO background in working with websites. I still have a long way to go but I’m so happy with the site so far. Thank you for developing a great, easy to use product!
Here is a version of the sliding doors technique that doesn’t require php expressions. Just use this code in place of your theme’s current page menu. <ul class=”navigation”> <li class=”"> </ul> All this does is give you the spans of “nav-left” and “nav-right” for you to use with your starting and ending images and code.
After activating the theme, the settings can be configured in the theme options page. You can find this under the appearance menu. There you can choose from the built in theme styles. Just choose the one you’d like from the drop down menu, save your changes and you instantly have a new style. You can
