The best WP YouTube Lyte to date!

Today WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.0 got finally pushed out the gates! This new version is beyond any doubt the best version to date, with the following new features: LYTE embeds are now fully responsive automatic inclusion of scheme.org microdata (VideoObject) (also known as “rich snippets”) even better performance (less requests; was 5, now 3) updated [...]

WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.0: beta testers needed

Yesterday I pushed a beta version of the long overdue 1.2.0 to the SVN trunk at wordpress.org. This is the version at least some of you have been waiting for, as it includes the following new features: LYTE embeds are now fully responsive automatic inclusion of microdata less in JavaScript, more in CSS better performance: [...]

Multi-lingual WordPress the Easy Way

Imagine you run WordPress with English as default language, but some posts are in another language. Dutch, maybe? Up until a couple of months ago, you wouldn’t really notice anything about that setup. Google might be slightly confused, but us bloggers aren’t really into SEO anyhow, no? But with the release Safari 5.1, Firefox 16 [...]

Adopting an OSS-orphan: Autoptimize

I’m taking over support for the venerable Autoptimize WordPress plugin. Although I started out using CSS-JS-booster first, I switched to Autoptimize for my JS & CSS aggregating and minimizing pleasure somewhere in 2012, not in the least because it was the only plugin to offer conversion of background-images to data-uri’s. I hadn’t noticed back then [...]

Looking in the mirror: 2012 numbers, 2013 goals

As I did a year ago for 2011, here I am looking in the mirror at my 2012 numbers and 2013 goals: This blog: 130 blogposts (78 “real” posts and 52 aggregated lifestream-events) 109285 pageviews, the most popular individual article being 5 tips to tackle the problem with iframes (8622 views). Off all new 2012 blogposts, Fix [...]