If you want to use jQuery JavaScript library in your WordPress theme, the best choice is to load the version hosted on Google servers instead of the local one shipped by default with WordPress.

To load jQuery from Google you have to edit the functions.php file of your theme adding these lines of code:

if( !is_admin()){
   wp_deregister_script('jquery');
   wp_register_script('jquery', ("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"), false, '1.3.2');
   wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}

Include jQuery from Google in WordPress is a post from: WordPress World

Thesis is a great theme for WordPress (this blog uses it ) but I don’t like the way it handles the meta tag description on all the Tag archive pages. In fact, Thesis repeats the blog descrption on all these pages.

In order to avoid this, you have to edit the file \lib\classes\head.php (around line 104) of your Thesis theme.

You have to change it from:

elseif (is_category()) {
				$category_description = trim(strip_tags(stripslashes(category_description())));
				$meta['description'] = (strlen($category_description)) ? '<meta name="description" content="' . $category_description . '" />' : '<meta name="description" content="' . single_cat_title('', false) . '" />';
			}

to:

elseif (is_category()) {
				$category_description = trim(strip_tags(stripslashes(category_description())));
				$meta['description'] = (strlen($category_description)) ? '<meta name="description" content="' . $category_description . '" />' : '<meta name="description" content="' . single_cat_title('', false) . '" />';
			}
elseif (is_tag()) {
				$meta['description'] = '';
			}

This code will remove the meta tag description on every tag archive page. Because it’s better to remove it than have the same description on all pages.

Let me know your impression about it.

How to avoid the same meta description on Tag archives with Thesis theme is a post from: WordPress World

Here’s a tip from Brad Ney about how to speed up WordPress load times using web server compression:

First of all, upload a test file like “test.php” on your web server.  This file must contain this line:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

View this file with a web browser and check if “zlib” is enabled by your hosting provider.

It it’s ok, place the following code in your header (above the DOCTYPE):

<?php
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'On');
ini_set('zlib.output_compression_level', '1');
?>

That’s all! Test if everything is working correctly.

Another way, probably safer than this one, is to use Wp Super Cache plugin and enable “Super Cache Compression” in its control panel.

Check out Top Referers to see where the visitors of your website are coming from.

Speed up WordPress using compression is a post from: WordPress World