Oh, hi Custom Posts for Wordpress 3.0. I must say you are the most exciting part of this upgrade. Magic Fields has been my go-to to help create an intuitive CMS admin interface for clients so far. It’s a powerful Plugin, but 3.0 you are wooing me.
I’ve just begun to test it out and will be using it for an upcoming project. My fav features so far?
1) Labels! No more telling clients to ignore the fact that content is called a Post in the edit page when they are editing Portfolio content you custom created for them. Now, change pretty much every label of the Custom Post you can think of.
2) exclude_from_search Stop listing out all the categories that you DON’T want Wordpress search to return, when a client only wants to search Blog posts.
3) Menu Icons. Finally, create that cute little menu icon for all Calender Posts and clients can easily find what content they want to update.
4) Supports. Easily program what meta content should appear on the edit page for each Custom Post.
Take a tour here for more details.
Mozilla has found that increasing the performance of their download page can dramatically increase their conversion ratio:
Let’s start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per year
With 275,000 daily visitors, a 15% improvement on this single English page translates to 10.28 million additional downloads per year. And, if we’re able to achieve a similar performance boost across our other top landing pages, we’ll drive in excess of 60 million yearly Firefox downloads.
How did they do it? By inlining javascript and css files… a technique we use extensively here at Core.
We make use of Minify, a php-based compressor and cache system that groups our css files and js files into as few separate documents as possible. It then compresses the files by removing whitespace, gzips them, and stores them for the next request.
It’s great to see documented improvements on such large sites as Mozilla. Keep up the good work!
http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/05/firefox-page-load-speed-–-part-ii/
