This seems to be a interesting way for backing up your WordPress site: WordPress Backup to Dropbox. For a few details check the tutorial “How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox“. I’ve not checked it by myself, but it looks usable.
Never forget to backup!
Often blogs have the copy right years hard coded in the footer. e.g. © 2008-2010. Ok this looks nice and informs the visitor how long the blog exists. But changing the footer every year is not a very lovely work to do. So my advise is to change the copyright information so that the year is changed automatically. An easy way to to this is to change the copyright information to something like this:
© 2008-<?php echo date('Y'); ?> My Blog
And you don’t have to change the copyright years in future.
A small hint which will help to improve page load time especially when using Firefox or Safari browser:
Maybe you’ve enabled the “flash slideshow” within the Slideshow options of NextGEN gallery. This will load the JW Image Rotator on every page. I’ve disable usage of the flash slideshow by unselecting the option:
[ ] Integrate the flash based slideshow for all flash supported devices
Without usage of the flash image rotator it is still possible to use slideshows. But the overall page load time increases. For me it looks like that loading the flash object causes the overall page display to be delayed. Google Chrome seems to handle loading of the flash object faster.
Anyway for me the fastest browser available seems to be Google Chrome. On my 13″ MacBook I recognize significant performance differences when using Safari, Firefox and Chrome. That’s the reason why I’m currently using Chrome (development version) as browser.
It seems that a few others also have the problem that pingbacks of a WordPress installation are not working.
In my case it was caused by Googles mod_pagespeed plugin for Apache. I thought this is a nice plugin, but it seems it causes to much problems with WordPress (second time here for me). So I decided to no longer use this plugin.
Useful link:
You may also think that loggin in every time you want to access the admin area of one of your WordPress blogs is quite annoying. But there is a quick way to enable the auto-login for WordPress. It’s shown below.
Add the following lines of code to the functions.php in theme directory:
function auto_login() {
if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
//determine WordPress user account to impersonate
$user_login = 'guest';
//get user's ID
$user = get_userdatabylogin($user_login);
$user_id = $user->ID;
//login
wp_set_current_user($user_id, $user_login);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action('wp_login', $user_login);
}
}
add_action('init', 'auto_login');
Source: lbsharp.com