Bad musical puns aside, you may notice a few design changes on the site. As part of an effort to speed up the site I have implemented the excellent WP Super Cache plugin and removed the Twitter and Last.fm widgets from the sidebar. Dynamic content and caching don’t work too well together, and although it’s possible to set the cache to expire each time the sidebar changes it rather negates the point of caching as I use Last.fm and Twitter rather a lot!
Yearly Archive for 2008
It seems like there’s a real problem with the auto save function on WordPress at the moment, if you let the auto save kick in before pressing ‘Save’ or ‘Publish’ then all your musings are lost. Unfortunately for me I only found this out after spending about 20 mins writing a post 
It seems to be ok if you hit ‘Save’ before the first auto save hits, you’ve got about 2 minutes as far as I can tell. So the moral of this story is get in there first and press ‘Save’ yourself! Or you could always resort to offline authoring instead…
Hopefully this’ll be fixed in 2.5, I’ve seen at least 10 threads on WordPress.org complaining about it, so it seems to be quite a common problem. Roll on the 10th of March!
When porting my sites from WordPress to WordPress Multi User (WPMU) I took the opportunity to upgrade K2 and implement the K2 Style Switcher plugin which you can see in action in the sidebar. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come out of the box with WPMU support, so I made the necessary changes. The modified plugin can be downloaded here. This version will work with both vanilla WordPress and WPMU, enjoy.
Update: I am now working together with Kimya Hasira (the original author) on the development of this plugin as described here. It has found a new permanent home on this site. Check out the page for information about the plugin.
I have recently discovered that Windows Live Writer is a really rather good tool for editing your blog. As well as Windows Live Spaces it also supports other popular tools including SharePoint, WordPress and Blogger. Predictably I’m using it for this post after spending all of ten minutes installing and configuring it. If offline editing is on your wish list then this is well worth a try.