meddlingBanter

Tonight I decided to make a few adjustments to speed up my website, though I’ve not actually taken any speed measurements to see if the speed has actually improved.  I’ve shortened the amount of posts I display on the first page from 10 to 5.  I don’t update all that much so I figure making 5 posts the default would be fine, and that’s less time to load my page.  The second thing I did was to edit some of my posts and use the “more” feature built into Wordpress.  All I had to do was insert the <!–more–> tag into my posts and Wordpress does the rest. If you look at the tool bar in the online editor there is a button which will insert the tag as well.  Last but not least, while looking for a plugin to implement the “more” feature automatically to each post I ran into a plugin which adds some AJAX to each “more” link.  Instead of clicking more and being directed from the main page to the single post view, the page expands revealing the rest of the post.  A feature which makes viewing each post much easier.  The name of the plugin is called Ajaxified Expand NOW and can be found under the Features sections here.