Sometimes you don’t want to broadcast to the world that your site is running on wordpress. Here are some steps to take to remove some of the “traces” of wordpress in your code.
Step 1: Update .htaccess
To mask the paths of your wp-content and theme directories in you will need to make some modifications to [...]
Inspired by the 1000 Suns Tumblr Theme, created by Sujay Thomas. I have ported it over to wordpress. The theme is very lightweight and shouldn’t require much customization other than un-commenting the sidebar in footer.php if you would like to include a sidebar on your blog. Enjoy.
You can download it here
Once your wordpress blog starts getting traffic besides your mom and cousins you will likely have to start taking measures to reduce it’s cpu footprint.
Note: Some of these methods will work on a shared host without root access, but ssh is required for some methods, like installing memcached.
Step 1: Offload Images to Amazon S3
Images generally [...]
This following bit of code should get you up and running with a simple way of sharing data from your wordpress blog with a flash object. Creating the XML file is a bit of a hastle, since you can’t output XML directly from a wordpress template file to flash. Instead you have to [...]