Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia.
Optimizing performance for WordPress
“Taking responsibility of your WordPress site by keeping it up to date to the latest version and managing it’s load on the server hosting it is just as important as the content you’re writing for it. Security updates, performance improvements and other bug fixes will help keep your site running smoothly, but there are a few other steps you can take to improve it’s performance.”
Block Spam by Denying Access to No-Referrer Requests
“What we have here is an excellent method for preventing a great deal of blog spam. With a few strategic lines placed in your htaccess file, you can prevent spambots from dropping spam bombs by denying access to all requests that do not originate from your domain.”
WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me!
“Well here’s the thing, with Socialize Me! those visitors to your ‘blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! Wayne’s on StumbleUpon, too!” with a link to your profile.
With the Socialize Me! Plugin for WordPress you can connect with people on services like: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Pownce, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and many, many more.”
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
“You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.”
JavaScript Client Library for Facebook API
“Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any web site that serves static HTML.”
Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator
A handy calculator that makes it easy to set the proper line-heights in your site design
Type Nuts
Type-related news.
Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs
Our communications coach breaks down the ace presenter’s latest Macworld keynote. The result? A 10-part framework you can use to wow your own audience.
Bad usability calendar
Bad usability calendar – from Netlife Research
UI-patterns.com
User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern.
Hi Alex, glad you my Socialize Me! Plugin.
Any questions, you know where to find me…
One day I have to get one of the RefreshAustin peeps to look at my blog. I think I jacked something up because sometimes these weird errors show up. Ack.
Sorry to mysteriously disappear so quickly last night, but I had a lot of work to do. It was fun.
Have a great day, Alex!
–Michelle
Wayne, I’m excited to try out the plugin as I think it will be useful on a number of WP sites.
Michelle, no worries. it was good to catch up with you, especially considering how hard it was to talk to everyone I wanted to! There were a couple of folks that I was aiming to meet that left before I had the chance. Guess that just means I have to go to more events!
Lemme know if you still need help with your site as I’d be happy to give it a look, as would other Refreshers, I bet.