David Coveney

A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics

Tag: plugins

  • Blog “Reboot”

    Hello – here’s the refreshed blog. I’ve decided to revert to a more typical blog format, after many months of soul searching on the issue. I previously had a layout based on a framework we used at interconnect/it for a couple of clients But not only have I opted to switch to a blog layout,…

  • New Spectacu.la Discussion Updates

    My colleague James has been extending the threaded comments plugin that I use(d)* on this site.  It’s available from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/spectacula-threaded-comments/trunk for those of you with SVN clients, and for download and easy installation from WordPress.org and Spectacu.la within a few days. If you wish to test it out, feel free to comment here… It adds…

  • WordCamp UK – Great Stuff + a Little Controversy

    I went to WordCamp UK 2010 in Manchester… this is my write-up of the event, and its controversies along with my presentations…

  • Live Threaded Commenting on WP

    At Interconnect IT / Spectacu.la my colleague James has developed a new version of the popular Spectacu.la Threaded Comments plugin.  It’s not yet in release form, but you can grab it from the WordPress.org repository via svn if you know how at http://svn.wp-plugins.org/spectacula-threaded-comments/trunk/ I’m bringing it up here because I’ve decided to trial the plugin…

  • WordPress Performance, Make it 3x Quicker!

    I’d started to notice that my site could often be slow to load – other sites on the same server weren’t suffering the same way, so I wanted to document a simple way in which one can identify performance issues on the site. This is one of them.

  • Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?

    I noticed on my pingdom stats recently that this site has been slowing down recently. But why? Is it WordPress? Some plugins? Time for research!

  • mySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP [Updated]

    Ever needed to migrate a database to a new server or website (especially with WordPress and other PHP applications) and been stuck because when you do a search and replace some of the data seems to get corrupted?