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Refactoring in propria persona: new design, new code

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For almost a year I’ve been relying on the (quite good) Hybrid framework with my own custom additions based on Twitter’s Bootstrap framework–and 30+ plugins to tweak it to be just so. With the newest updates to Bootstrap, I wanted to update everything–but what I had, while functional, was brittle and hard to optimize. The solution? Re-work and re-implement the good; replace the bad, and the slow, and the broken.

My latest top five tweaks, tips, and plugins for WordPress

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I love WordPress for its crazy flexibility and endlessly new plugins. I regularly take advantage of this to tweak and change my own site–and you can too! So what have I been doing lately with my favorite platform? Some of these are easy–just install a plugin–while some require more advanced knowledge to implement—but all of them will supercharge your WordPress installation.

WordPress under Nginx and Varnish with W3TC

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I decided to switch to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) so that I could have more flexibility and control over my server environment. I selected VM Storm based on a review of “low-end” VPS providers (since this is my personal tinkering platform I don’t need to pay extra for a high-end name). I then added Nginx as my Web server, Varnish as a front-end cache, WordPress for blogging, and W3TC as a WordPress performance enhancer.

How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you use on your blog

By in the Spring of 2010

I’ve found that pictures shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license (of all flavors) are a great resource for bloggers who want artwork to accompany their posts. I’ve also realized that not everyone, myself included, has always done an adequate job of meeting the attribution requirements of CC licenses. To help remedy this, here are my recommendations for doing this properly in a blog.