Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ category

Limit WordPress Post/Page Revisions

by Jason Koning

WordPress Tip

Reduce your database overhead – reduce it’s size & speed your site up – probably marginally, but every little helps.

//Create a maximum of 6 revisions, plus one for auto-save.
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 6);

Pop that at the top of your wp-config.php file inside the opening PHP tag.

Note: you can disable post/page revisions altogether – but I’d recommend against that.

WordPress as a CMS

by Jason Koning

I’ve started building a custom theme on top of  WordPress – to a print designers spec. Whilst the visual aspect does indeed look like it’s been penned by a print designer, the actual implementation of the static xhtml/css framework I built of the design, has thus far been incredibly easy to put on top of WordPress.

Far easier than I would have imagined in fact.

There’s a few really good resources out there for this kind of thing.

Web based;
Installing WordPress Locally
Building a Custom WordPress Theme
Moving and Exporting WordPress

Ebook;
Rockstar WordPress Designer

This covers most of the bases for starters, what I’m looking at now is how to easily create a dynamic (multi-level) navigation system…


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