Hello, I’m Ewan.
I thought it was time for a change so I’m experimenting with a new theme here on MIR. I’ve done the initial work but I need to sort out some kind of featured posts section for the BlueVia Developer Titan series. I also need to sort out the right-hand columns. In fact I need to sort out all the columns.
I am, however, liking a bit of fresh air.
What do you think so far?
Looks good to me! 🙂
Looks good. WooThemes – solid choice (although it’s a shame they don’t offload a lot of the custom JS and CSS into external files rather than putting it into every page).
Can I recommend that you do the following as well?
* Add caching using W3 Total Cache – it’ll speed up your page loads. Page speed also affects Google ranking these days.
* Remove stuff from your head if you don’t need it, such as RSD and Windows Live Writer links
* Remove the meta detailing your WP version (why make it easy for people to attack the site using scripting?)
* Move JS to the footer where possible, and minify all HTML, JS and CSS
* As you have a global audience, offload stuff to a CDN wherever possible (you can do this easily, to Amazon S3 or others, using W3 Total Cache)
Oh, and implement everything up to Grey Hat in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/nickgarner/worodcamp-uk-porstmouth-advanced-seo-for-wordpress
It’ll do wonders for your SEO.
That’ll do for starters!
Cheers
Matt
PS One more thing: change your username from “admin” (there’s a plugin that’ll allow you to do that easily, without going to phpMyAdmin). Offers some protection against scripting attacks.
Much better.. the other theme was a bit ‘ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH’ this one is a lot more ‘HMMMMMM’ :).