The origins of the standard blog front page vary. Some say that the post-after-post-after-post style comes from the ancient Greeks, others say it was the Chinese. One thing’s for certain, it’s old and it’s tired.
Having been a blogger in one shape or another for going on five years now, I’ve started to become disenchanted with the main index layout common to near all blogging platforms. You know the one, a landing page that lists the 5-10 most recent …
I decided to try out Ricardo Galli Granada’s WordPress Cache (WP-Cache) plugin and see how much speed it actually added to my blogs’ load times.
As the plugin advertises, WordPress is already pretty trim when it comes to MySQL database calls and PHP pagination, so this plugin is really only useful on high activity sites, or sites with really slow servers. My blogs are in the middle, and so neither of these situations really apply. But I tested it anyway.…
