Your new theme is finished and live. You’ve squashed some remaining bugs. Maybe even added your favicon that was forgotten. Your blog is ready for the flood of traffic that is about to pour in, except for one thing. It’s time to optimize your WordPress theme so that visitors get a snappy load time when they visit, and so that your host doesn’t come to it’s knees if you get a flood of traffic from something like Digg or SlashDot. This post will show how I optimized this blog and reducing its size by over 1MB and shaving over 3 seconds from its load time, with a step-by-step guide with screenshots of what I did. Finish Reading »

I’ve been using Windows Live Writer the last few days for an upcoming post and I wanted to give a quick write-up about it.

What is Windows Live Writer?

Live Writer is a free desktop blog editor. It can write and publish posts without having to log into WordPress admin. Finish Reading »