*sigh* I’ll never get tired of looking at this city all lit up.
For the folks who don’t have the time or the technical knowledge to change over to the Post Thumbnail support built into WordPress, WordThumb (a secure fork & rewrite of TimThumb) should make tightening up your sites a bit easier. [via]
Google Page Speed Service and Large Uploads in WordPress
So Google’s Page Speed Service looks pretty great – but if you get into the beta and upload a lot of media to your WordPress site, you’re going to run into a few snags. The cap for their caching proxy is currently set at 2MB. And while that’s fine for most folks, it’s not really going to fly for photobloggers and the like.
Fortunately, there’s a workaround…
All you need to do is create a subdomain (like admin.domain.com) and point it at your current WordPress install’s directory. If you don’t know how to do this, your web host’s support should be able to help you out.
Now you’ll notice that when you visit that new URL, you’ll get redirected to your main domain. WordPress needs to know to not do that, so just add this code to your “wp-config.php” file:
define('WP_HOME', 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
It doesn’t really matter where you drop it, but I like to put this sort of stuff after the MySQL information. Then just save out the file, kill your browser cache and try to visit your subdomain now.
So long as things don’t keep trying to redirect you, log into your WordPress Dashboard (admin.domain.com/wp-admin/) and you should be able to post and upload files without any issues.
Simple enough, right?
With all of the hubbub around TimThumb, it’s probably a good time to point people to this handy guide on replacing it with functionality that’s already baked into WordPress.
Artisan 8-bit Photo Booth
If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, you probably don’t know that I launched a new project last week. So take a minute and go check out Hipster Ipsum. You know, if you want to.
I’ll admit that it’s kind of stupid — and making fun of hipsters is way played out by now — but this is one of those ideas that has been kicking around in my head for a while. And rather than just letting it flop around in my brainpan until someone else made it, I decided to carve out a little of my free time and actually ship it.
I’m pretty happy with the results too. Here’s some of the text it’s generating:
Jean shorts aliqua magna mollit. Whatever est leggings put a bird on it aesthetic sint tempor butcher. Keytar gluten-free fuck sustainable. Portland aesthetic chambray, Readymade nulla 8-bit bahn mi Austin keffiyeh Four Loko letterpress. Veniam skateboard deserunt vinyl nisi fugiat. Lo-fi accusamus sapiente, pariatur tofu aesthetic do leggings deserunt organic quis consequat.
I’m sure that there’s plenty of hipster cliches that I’ve missed. So if you check out the site and see any that I might be missing, don’t hesitate to let me know!