Rocket Powered WordPress

Posted on April 15, 2013 by David Kryzaniak

One of the downfalls of WordPress, and just about every other CMS on the planet, is that they are slow and processor/memory hungry. There’s a tremendous amount of overhead due to legacy functions, ability to extend (plugins and themes), and

WordPress Mobile Site Plugins and Responsive Themes

Posted on March 14, 2013 by David Kryzaniak

Last week I spoke about mobile site plugins and responsive themes at the Appleton WP Meetup. In case you missed it, here are my slides and the video.

(Attempt to) Hide your WP-Login Page from Hackers

Posted on February 6, 2013 by David Kryzaniak

Last month, my /wp-login.php page was hit about 7,000 times according to AwStat. That’s a little frighting… Unfortunately, there’s little that can be done to hide your wp-login.php page.

Force Non-WWW URL in WordPress

Posted on November 4, 2012 by David Kryzaniak

Making sure all your guest are coming in through the same url can be important for SEO. Google may see your domain as two sites depending how you use the WWW and non-WWW url. If Google does pickup both your

Add Custom Menus to the WP Theme Customizer

Posted on October 29, 2012 by David Kryzaniak

Here is a simple Gist (originally created by https://github.com/Abban) that lays out all the necessary hooks to start customizing the new ‘Theme Customizer’ in WordPress 3.4