With all the new API enhancements in the last few versions of WordPress, I thought it was time to give my WordPress Textmate bundle an update, as I first released it exactly a year ago. Here are the things I've added:

Added 'esc' tab-expansion: with the help of Mark Jaquith's great article Escaping API updates for [...]

I've just released Sociable 3.3 which comes with a very cool new feature: awe.sm integration. Awe.sm is a URL shortener. Free for those with an account (it's in private beta right now), and then it uses awe.sm, but for $100 you get a URL shortener on your OWN domain!
Now I happened to have a [...]

While in a previous post I talked about WordPress database optimization, with this post I intend to show you how to improve your sites performance a bit more by hosting your javascripts with Google.
This only works if you're using jQuery, prototype or another library that is supported by Google's AJAX Librararies API.
While those javascript libraries [...]

I use FeedBurner to track all my feed subscribers, but sometimes I want to provide a different feed to other people (without my feed signature for instance, or using excerpts instead of full feeds).
Now when you use FeedBurner's Feedsmith plugin, this'll redirect all of your normal feeds to FeedBurner, and that's a smart thing to [...]

This is quite big news for me, and for OrangeValley Projects, the development side of OrangeValley that we've been starting up over the last few months. In short: Brian Gardner, of StudioPress and Revolution fame, and myself, have decided to partner up, to provide better SEO'd themes to StudioPress customers.
Brian is the one who kickstarted [...]

At OrangeValley, we're currently working on migrating a large Dutch blog network over from it's own proprietary system to a WordPress Multi User install, one of our more serious WordPress MU development projects. There's quite a few things about WordPress MU that I like, but what I like most is, well, that's it's WordPress :)
For [...]

I presented on A4UExpo Europe yesterday on WordPress Optimisation, doing 40 tips in 40 minutes. Here are the slides:

I was a guest on WPWeekly Episode 48 last saturday, where we discussed a lot of things WordPress, WordPress SEO, etc. It was fun being on with Jeff Chandler and David Peralty, and I think you'll enjoy the interview, so go listen to it, like, now!

I've been working with a plugin that was mentioned on the wp-hackers list last week, called debug queries, to optimize the performance on some of my sites, including this one. The plugin was pretty easy to use, and I've improved a bit on it. I've sent the patch to Frank, who authored the original plugin, [...]

I was recently interviewed by Ross Dunn, one of the hosts of SEO 101 on Webmasterradio.fm. I thought it might be interesting for you too, so you can listen here or download the mp3 here.
We discuss WordPress optimization at a pretty basic level, so for those just starting out with WordPress optimization this might be [...]