Including parent theme CSS
Have you ever opened the style.css file of a child theme and found something like this?
@import url("../make/style.css");
You don’t want that. @import has a negative impact on page load, …
Making WordPress faster
This is a story of implementing things I knew I should be doing, but didn’t QUITE realize the significance. Last year I did a talk at WordCamp Grand Rapids on …
Topher DeRosia: Intro To Plugin Development
This talk is for people that know PHP and have written some in their theme functions file, but don’t know how to pull that out into a plugin. (This is …
Topher DeRosia: Caching: Absolute Beginner to Wizard
This talk discusses how to speed up your site using caching via easy plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache, transients, and server site options like Memcache, APC, …