The latest WP YouTube Lyte version came with support for responsive themes and added microdata for better search-engine discovery of your embedded video’s. But there were also some important improvements from a performance point of view; The title of the video (and the description, length, …) is now requested and cached server-side (the data is [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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