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Warren Shea

Site Updates – Secondary content boxes + WP 3.1.2 + GMAIL Theme

Saturday, May 21st, 2011 at 1:41 am

Apologies for repeated content…it’s better centralized in this post than the last

Secondary content boxes
Created a PHP Proxy to retrieve Cross-Domain XMLs (RSS Feeds).
Modified the AJAX Request to correctly retrieve various feeds.
With the help of my co-worker, implemented concurrent the AJAX Blog requests.
Boxes only show (with a jQuery fadein) when all the contents of that box have loaded.

Result: Rather than have WordPress load the RSS and have the site load and compile via PHP and render the HTML all at once, now the site will load first, and retrieve the RSS after/during load.

Upgraded to WP3.1.2
Haven’t updated my WordPress in a while…because when I do, I have to make code changes to the files WP changes.
With my recent blog changes, it actually eliminates much of the changes I have to do…updating WP is twice as easy.

GMAIL Theme
Google has changed the top of their page, as well as GMAIL’s top. I modified my site to mimic it. Nothing too fancy. Hover over the top links to see…

Timeout
I think I solved the timeout issue. Also, I know why I never got it…the issue was related. Anyways…let’s see how it goes but hopefully, it’s gone!
(this is like, my 5th time saying that…but maybe it’ll be true this time!)

Posts
I’ve been removing some of my…questionable posts. Well, just “Drafting” them. You will see why in a few weeks or months…

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