Since a week orso I have changed the WordPress theme of this blog. I have stepped away from the Kite Theme and instead have used a brand-new WordPress 3.0 theme called Voidy by Niyaz.
I actually have lost count how many times I have changed the URL and/or theme of this blog. Changing the theme keeps things afresh, but changing URLs is not my favorite thing to do, especially since I have one or two posts that people seem to find very interesting…
After yet another massive week-long blackout on the Namecheap Reseller Servers – which still hasn’t been solved as you can see when you click on the link – I finally managed to move the site to the Senlin Hosting Club. They are hosted on Bluehost which seems to have more up-time than Namecheap will ever have.
Anyway, I still need to change over a few more things such as photos (I have ditched the NextGen Gallery plugin and will start hosting my photos via Picasa and/or Flickr), but in general lines the blog and its content have moved over and are running smooth.
Lately I have been hearing a lot about a new-ish cache plugin for WordPress. It’s called W3 Total Cache and after I downloaded it a few days ago, it looked quite intimidating to even start configuring it. Mind you I actually never have found it really necessary to use any caching plugin. But this blog wasn’t one of the faster sites around and especially now that I am back in China and loading times take longer anyway, I thought it a good idea to start using one.
Fortunately 2 days ago I received a new message in my RSS inbox that contained an excellent tutorial on how to properly set up the W3 Total Cache plugin, so since this evening my entire website is cached.
Please let me know in the comments how this works for you!
