September 12th, 2008 -- Posted in geek, news, real-life, wordpress | 
Like most attentive have noticed (easily the most fancazzisti) I made the recent changes to the blog he needed the summer is over and now it's time to return serious (at least give the impression). The blogroll has been temporarily removed (end in a special page) to make room for the ranking of commentators (no follow-free), is reset every 60 days, who appears in the ranking takes a direct link from pagerank 2 (for now). Have been changed positions and colors of adsense ads on the single article, removed the horrible side skyscraper from 160 × 600. Now even this blog can boast of having a footer with the various credits (which culo eh), amongst others I spent 15 minutes looking for the good person who had originally developed the theme of the blog but it seems evaporated. Considering the strong uselessness of this blogghetto I just come to pay alone hosting annual have a place to write their own vaneggi repays the time required for maintenance in the coming days will write a couple of articles to explain better what I did and by what criteria especially with regard to adsense. I go to the bar bermi something good evening to all!
August 9th, 2008 -- Posted in geek, guides, special, wordpress | 
Like complicarti life? Ok, you've found the guide for you. When I decided to open a blog in the mists of time (oh, are well 5 months ago) I was surprised the amount of services and servizietti used by bloggers.
Initially I ignored them, especially because the blog itself was still to be completed and time scarseggiava then for various reasons (the feed reader with 400 news not read every morning) I was forced to rivalutarli. One of the main problems of a blogger is the over-information, reading every day about twenty feeds often find interesting links and not have the time material to write an article. Scartando a priori Twitter and Plurk that with maximum 140 characters are in practice chat the choice fell on Tumblr. With this service you find an article to share you just click on the button bar in the browser to publish with its link (including photos and video).
After a month of good test Tumblr has begun to show some limits, themes editable up to a certain point and inadequate control on the code of the page, are obvious limitations to a "external". Thus began the search for a cms that was as close as possible to Tumblr, sliding various platforms have not found anything so simple and quick for my link / photo / video.
A week ago the ideona (said the man who had just discovered the hot water): maybe usassi Wordpress as a Tumblr?
Wordpress version 2.6 allows you to enter items through a shortcut through the bar just as Tumblr for those who did not want / could update is available the appropriate plug-Quick post.
The great wordpress is not meant to be used as a simple service of micro-blogging, the code is "heavy", there is a lot of over-engineering, mountains of requests to the database.
We are therefore faced with a crossroads, either we have a dedicated hosting (is not my case) or we make a wordpress a nice slimming cure. To bring in wordpress "weight form" can proceed in two ways: directly act on code and queries, mount a theme super-lightweight.
The first road leads us to plug LightPress ripe to 2.0.0, installing the plug on wordpress simplifies a lot of connections to databases and the code is reduced to a minimum. You can see it in action on Orientalia4all. The second option leads instead to iArtistic, a nice topic for wordpress developed by an Italian boy. This topic is very minimal in the main body uses only 3 files to work (index.php, header.php, comments.php), the image in the background is very slight. Do not forget the plug WP Super Cache that avoids a lot of stress to the database when there are many visits on a particular article.
Here you see the final result, from now onwards to access "pills" just click on the disk to right:
