‘WordPress’ Category

April 5th, 2010

VW Pro Feature List

WordPress Optimized Premium Themes

Custom Theme Admin Options

1) Featured Article Options
2) Twitter Feed Options
3) ReTweet Options
4) Face Book Options
5) Extra Sexy Social Bookmark Options
6) Post Ad options (Show or Disable)
7) Custom Rating System (Editor Button also)
8.) Simple to use rating [rate class="gold"]5[/rate]
Up to 5 stars Gold, Red, Green, Grey, Blue

9) SEO Post Editor Blocks (Title, Desc., & Key Words)
10) Ad Image & Ad Text post editor blocks
11) Automatic post thumb (upload any size auto adjust)
12) Post Thumb loads large image in animated Fancy Box
13) Fancy Box post button in post editor
14) Extra formatting buttons in editor
15) Custom user only content button in editor
16) Members only content button in editor via (Members Plug-in)

17) Lightweight, reduced Database queries and HTTP requests. All CSS, JavaScript, and icons are compiled.

18) Side Bar Follow Me block RSS, Twitter, Face Book, and Feed Burner form.

19) Side Bar About Me Option, Image & Text
20) Side Bar Ajax Tabbed standard block, Categories, Recent posts, and Archive

21) Side Bar Ajax Tabbed Links block, configuration. Roughly 3 link category tabs.

22) HTML Column posting buttons for 2 column posts.
23) Quick Admin Links block
24) Custom sidebar block positions
25) Side Bar ads block, up to 6, 125px x 125px images
26) All options have On/Off
27) Adjustable text
28) Custom read more icon
29) Side Bar login block
30) Ajax show/hide comments with cookie

Additional Theme Extras

1) Popular Posts
2) Recent Posts
3) Recent Comments
4) Related Articles
5) All icons are in a compiled Sprite
6) Ratings in 5 colors Gold, Red, Green, Blue, Gray. All in 1 sprite image.

7) Authors Block in each post, On/Off option
8.) Post meta On/Off option
9) Tiny Url Shortener on built in ReTweet
10) Custom Author Page
11) Custom Human readable Site Map of all links.
12) Integrated WP-pagenavi
13) Breadcrumn post navigation
14) Lower database queries beause of less pluggins.
15) Extra Templates =
16) Portfolio Layout
17) Portal featured blocks front page
18) Author page
19) Site Map
20) Members Only
21) SECURITY remover WP versioning in code

This list is not yet complete!

April 5th, 2010

VW Pro WP Theme Options

Sample editor features of VW Pro custom themes.

These features are built into the HTML editor through a custom script in VW Pro Word Press themes.
This allows creating fancy posts quick and easy with a ton of features to use in each post.

Custom information blocks
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Custom star ratings
  • Rate this one gold [rate class="gold"]5[/rate]
  • How about a red [rate class="red"]3[/rate]
  • Some blue [rate class="blue"]2[/rate]
Custom list with ticks
  • Item one
  • Item two

We even have custom members and non members buttons allowing you to have different content in a post for members and non members via a WP Members plugin.

More to come..

Screen shots of the post editor extras

View of the extra editor buttons

SEO and post image options built in.

Built in rating system with key FAQ’s, screenshot, and customizable rating definitions.

Custom taxonomy to relate posts to pages.

When using this feature a Related Posts list with links are shown on the page it is used on.

December 11th, 2009

Benchmark Your Themes

I have been getting deeper into development with Word Press, mostly styling but none the less working in Word Press because the fact of the mater is that there is a market for it. The point of this post is this, building a dynamic site can get quite heave very quickly, especially in WP. If you add a bunch of plug-ins which are loaded dynamically then add a custom theme that you maybe even paid a premium price for, your database queries can go through the roof.

For instance, WP has like 9 queries on an empty page with no plug-ins, that’s a lot already. Now add one of the themes out there with a couple rows of featured posts blocks. One thing that I noticed looking through some of these fancy themes is that they are running a ton of queries to get these featured posts.

Add 3 rows of 3 and a couple plug-ins and you are well over 50 queries.
Now have 100 visitors at a given moment on that page, that is a minimum of 5000 database calls in that moment.
You had better have an excellent host!

I’ve also seen this with dynamic Ajax scroll-er plug-ins.
3 posts to grab content from in one category and its 7-9 queries. Something is not right there, guys.
You should be able to grab that content in 2 queries, 1 if the database structure was descent (but that’s a whole different game).

For you out there with front pages like this, do yourself a favor, especially if you have had issues in the past.
See how many queries are loading and how long it takes, it’s simple to do.

In your theme’s footer.php template before the closing

</body>

Add

Select All
1
<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds.

Now your pages will show you how many queries there are for each page.
You can determine what to do from there.

As a further note on the subject, you can have a featured content page and have a bunch of blocks and not have it take a bunch of database queries.
Stay Tuned and I might tell how :)