Charting load times.
We’ve been working with WordPress for years, from adding tagging functionality before it became a standard WP feature, to optimizing it for clients, to powering this very blog. It’s a great platform to develop for, and we’re always looking for new ways to customize it, giving new WordPress functionality to our clients and the WP community at large. Here are a couple of new, custom plugins we’ve developed for WordPress!
LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.
Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.
Currently, it seems as though our beloved GT Tag Cloud is not supported by WordPress 2.3, and so if you’re looking to update to the latest version; be aware that your tags will be inoperable. GT Tag Cloud functions all the way up to version 2.2.3.
We’re working on a solution to this, so please stay tuned to our blog for more developments.
Just a minor update to our WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin.
You can now display your tags underneath a post entry! Spectacular we know! You can set whether or not you want them to show up through the Tag Options menu too if you think the Tag Cloud is sufficient.
Have fun and happy tagging!
This plugin is available for download and is free!
Download Gossamer Threads WP Tag Cloud Plugin v0.2 – No longer supported
This plugin allows you to tag your posts and display the tags in a cloud. The more times a tag is used, the bigger it gets; in true Web 2.0 fashion!
You can choose to display your tags in Alphabetical Order or have the Top Rated Centered. In addition, a tag input field is implemented when you write posts so you can easily add, remove or modify tags. A dropdown menu of existing tags is also included so you can quickly and easily find relevant tags!
This plugin is available for download and is free!