Daniel 'MaTachi' Jonsson

Category Archives: My Blog

Updated My Blog

Some days ago I felt that my blog was really slow and sluggish, so I looked into that problem. I deleted plugins that I didn’t use and I installed the cache plugin W3 Total Cache. So it should run much better now, which I think it has done during these few days of testing since the installation.

When I did the performance tweaking, I also realised that the theme monochrome that I used was kinda ugly and boring. So I went to WordPress.org and found a really nice and free theme called Tarski. As always I had to do some tweaking to the code to feel satisfied; in this case was the largest change the randomizing banner. I hope you like the theme and find it pretty. :)

Comments With Disqus

I have just installed Disqus comment system here on my blog. The process was really easy and I’m happy with the result. I was also able during the installation to export all old comments, which was pretty neat.

The reason why I changed the original WordPress comment system to Disqus, is because I like how powerful it is. It’s easy for you, the readers, to comment when you can use the same account on many blogs. The notification function is also better.

Speeding Up My Blog

Until today I have usually added images to blog posts by linking them from other pages, found through Google Image Search. But from now on I will change that habit. Not that I won’t use Google Image Search any longer, but I won’t add images to posts that are hosted on other sites. Instead I will search for the image, download it, resize it in Gimp, save it in a compressed format, and finally upload and add it to the relevant post with WordPress.

This change will greatly decrease the loading time for my blog and posts. Because usually are the images unnecessary large and have to be resized on the user’s computer, which means that the user have to download the full image, to later make it smaller. This is pretty pointless.
The images are also often saved in formats that aren’t very Internet friendly, which takes up much space and will just increase the loading time for the user. Instead I will save all images as compressed jpegs.
The last advantage with hosting the images on my own web host, is that the transfer time will decrease since the user won’t have to access foreign countries around the whole globe to download images. And it also looks pretty bad when the site won’t stop loading, because some Russian server has a slow upload speed.

Added A Favicon

I added a favicon to my blog. Nothing special but… Yeah. :)

Here is the code that you need to put inside the head-tags, depending on what type of format your icon is saved as:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/somepath/myicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/somepath/image.png" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="/somepath/image.gif" />

Remove “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete” error message

I just updated WordPress from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 manually, because it didn’t work to automatically update it. When I was finished I was stuck with this message on the admin panel:

An automated WordPress update has failed to complete

This problem was easily solved by deleting the file .maintenance in the website’s root directory.

Uploaded some school works

I have uploaded some school at http://danielj.se/works.php. Almost all works are in Swedish, but you can always use Google Translate if you wonder what I have written. :)

I have uploaded the works mainly because I want to give something back to the Internet, after everything it has given me. And with that I mean that I want to help others by affording my old school works.

A new start

I decided that I wanted to start blogging again, but I didn’t fully like the earlier content and therefore I deleted it. I hope you readers will enjoy this start over.