Tag Archive: caching

Fixed WordPress calendar title formatting issue ($ak_title_separator) in cached pages

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-20T02:41:27Z in News, with these tags: blogs, bugs, caching, calendar, posts, sidebar, widgets, 0 Comments. 371 words.

I discovered an annoying issue with the calendar widget on my Thripp.com blog today. I use the widget which is included in WordPress, WordPress MU, and Thripp.com, but for the Internet Explorer, Safari, and Camino browsers, it formats the pop-up titles with line breaks instead of commas. In Firefox it looks like this:

WordPress Calendar, Firefox

It’s pretty reasonable to use commas to separate post titles. But in Internet Explorer, WordPress generates the page using line breaks instead:

WordPress Calendar, Internet Explorer

That makes sense, since Firefox can’t handle line breaks in title tags. Unfortunately, …

Thripp.com is now fully cached

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-21T07:58:20Z in News, with these tags: caching, gzip, speed, thripp.com, 2 Comments. 190 words.

I blogged before about how I had to give up caching because it doesn’t work on Wordpress MU. That was with my old web host (Netfirms), but now that I’ve switched, Wordpress Super Cache works fine.

I enabled it for the whole site. This is great news, because everything is gzipped now and loads real quick. The cache clears every 24 hours. The downside is that the stats in your sidebar stay a day out of date. I changed the wording from “Pageviews today” to “Uniques Yesterday” to clarify. Your tag and category pages may also stay a …