Something is slowing down my homepage. Could be the flickr feed, could be the del.icio.us links, could be the amount of entries pulled through by title (though i doubt it). I’ll look into it when i get a minute but for now please accept my apologies if you had to wait a long time to read this.
Published on January 27, 2006
Filed in General, Web design
Guy -- off to see Quantum of Solace tonight. I hear it's not very good. #
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Make sure you have caching set-up on any web service you consume, I wasn’t doing that with last.fm and my site was major slow. Caching fixed it in a snap.
January 27th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Had a feeling that would be the case. I’ll certainly do that. Thanks for the tip Justin.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
I’ve now activate the flickr cache folder in the wordpress flickr rss plugin and it seems to have sped things up a bit. Any recommendations for a decent way of displaying del.icio.us links via wordpress? At the moment im using feeddigest which is perhaps not such a great idea if their servers are running slow..
January 27th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Glad that helped a little bit
I don’t know what plugins are available for WordPress, but if I was going to consume delicious I would use magpie. I just discovered it a few weeks ago, but I’m already hooked. I can’t think of any other way I’d want to utilize RSS with PHP.
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Magpie looks to be exactly what I need. I’ll install it and see how things go. Thanks for the tip.
February 23rd, 2006 at 8:46 am