I just found a helpful article about compressing website pages automatically using .htaccess here. This reduced my page size by at least 75%, a big (and safe) help for viewing pages fast.
My next search was for a WordPress caching plugin. I am currently testing WordPress Super Cache, which has been updated to work with WP 2.5. However, it has a complicated setup and clashed with the .htaccess rules I already have setup for the rest of my website.
I've been testing other .htaccess rules to enable GZIP or Deflate for all files, but haven't yet found the perfect configuration. If I do, I'll post it here!
I have just converted the post on the WordPress plugin Admin SSL into a page - it can now be accessed here.
It is very easy to do this - simply edit the `post_type` in `wp_posts` in your database from 'post' to 'page'. Then you need to edit the new page and tell it to use the default template with comments, or all the comments will not display!
Finally, you need to setup a redirect from the old post URL to the new page. I did this using a directive in .htaccess:
Redirect 301 /blog/2008/04... http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/admin-ssl
Not only does this redirect people browsing to the page, it also redirects feed requests.
Well I'm enjoying my experience of WordPress 2.5 already. The admin interface is so much cleaner, and it does so many things better than before!
I did however have one small problem. When trying to add media using the new media interface, I kept getting HTTP errors. After a bit of searching around, I discovered it was due to the mod_security Apache module.
Not wanting to disable it entirely, I discovered that it is possible simply to disable the POST filter, which allows the gallery to work. Simply add the following to the .htaccess file in the root folder of your blog:
<IfModule mod_security.c>SecFilterScanPOST Off</IfModule>
This works for me, so I hope it works for you!
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