Tag Archives: Search

jQuery API site using WordPress as CMS

By Dougal | Published: January 19, 2010

I mentioned before that the jQuery project was going to switch from Mediawiki to using WordPress for their online documentation. They’ve recently pulled the trigger on that change, and you can now visit the new WordPress-powered site at: api.jquery.com

Performance and Backend

As mentioned before, we’ve switched away from using a MediaWiki backend to a new WordPress-powered backend. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Ajax, API, cms, content management, docs, documentation, JavaScript, jquery, libraries, livesearch, WordPress | 5 Comments

Analytics Observations

By Dougal | Published: August 11, 2009

Over the years, I’ve variously either obsessed over or ignored my site stats. I’ve always found website analytics interesting, but since I’m not selling anything here, I don’t have a lot of motivation to really dig in and try to make sweeping changes for the sake of increasing clicks or search engine rankings. Oh, I have dabbled with things here and there — related posts links, the SEO Super Comments plugin, etc. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged analytics, analytics360, app, Bing, Google, iPhone, keywords, organic, referral, serp, traffic, visits, WordPress | 5 Comments

Upgrade or else!

By Dougal | Published: April 8, 2008

UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. This is one of the areas where I disagree with the core developement team — if it was up to me, there would be a 2.3.4 security release for those who have good reasons why they can’t upgrade to 2.5 right now.

Okay, people, if you are running any version of WordPress older than ~~2.3.3~~ 2.5*, you need to upgrade now. [...]