Fixing pingchecker link locating code

I have installed the free pingback manager pingchecker since I wanted to be able to manually check and ping other blogs that I link to. Unfortunately for some reason the plugin doesn’t handle link tags with additional info/attributes like styles or a target. The problem is around line 270, the regexp which is used to find links needs to be updated to look like this: inputcontent.replace(/[^<]*(<a [^>]*href=(?:"|\')([^"\']+)(?:"|\')[^>]+>([^<]+)<\/a>)/g, function () { matches.push(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1, 4)); }); That […] Read more »

W3 Total Cache and WordPress Network issues

Racing Stars

I have setup this wordpress installation as a network of sites using the built in WordPress support for site networks. All of the sites are running on separate domains but WordPress is setup to use subdirectories for the different sites. So this blog is actually installed at /nsilverbullet in wordpress. To map from subdirectories to domains I am using the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. Unfortunately WordPress MU Domain Mapping and W3 Total Cache do […] Read more »

Amazing wordpress cache

I have installed and setup W3 Total Cache and the performance increase is amazing. My site which, on a bad day, used to load pages in 5 to 7 seconds now loads them in closer to 1.5 seconds! The end result far surpases my expectations and thats without all the bells and whistles that W3 Total Cache supports in the form of CDN and advanced cache servers. I will admit that it was not as […] Read more »