Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Google PageRank and Google Toolbar

How often Pagerank on Google Toolbar gets updated?


Matt Cutts from Google gives answer to this question on his recent Google Webmaster Help video.



There isn't anything special. As usual focus on content and Pagerank will follow. If you are not follow Google Webmaster help channel on Youtube...Do it now!
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Wordpress 3.2 released

Wordpress 3.2 released - Faster, Lighter and BETTER


Finally something was done to Wordpress loading speeds. I'm using both Blogger and Wordpress blogs, and Wordpress has always been very slow. (Yes, I know that there are plugins that should speed up things, but I like to have less plugins.)

Wordpress 3.2 -  Changelog Highlights

  • Refreshed Administrative UI - Admin redesign
  • New Default Theme "Twenty Eleven" - Uses the latest Theme Features
  • Full Screen Editor - Distraction free writing experience
  • Extended Admin Bar - More useful links to control the site
  • Requirements Changes -
    • PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
    • MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)
  • Enhanced Browser Compatibility -
    • Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
    • Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
    • Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser
  • WordPress is Faster and Lighter -
    • Faster page loads -- We've gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time
    • Faster Upgrades -- The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you'll find upgrading faster than ever
    • Optimizations to WP_Filesystem -- Updates over FTP are now much quicker and less error prone
    • Stream downloads to the filesystem -- Improves update times and lowers the memory footprint
    • Performance improvements for wptexturize()
    • Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support
    • More efficient term intersection queries
    • Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)
    • Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string()
    • Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests as well as the memory footprint
    • And many other improvements and tweaks
Whole list of changes is available here.
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