Klix Image DimSum vs WP Search

Addicted to speed. Heck, who isn’t. Squeeze out better performance with little effort. And get a shot at a higher Google ranking. Search engines, notably Google introduced speed in their ranking algorithm a few years ago. Yet, the average site runs above 10 seconds to the user. Big guns like Facebook, Twitter and Google deliver their site in under 2 seconds to the user. Yours should shoot for the same performance. A lot of sites suffer in speed tests because large images really slows down the delivery of a website. Specifically, many sites serve huge images when they’re viewed as tiny thumbnails by the user. Caching can significantly speed up WP, but if you’re delivering elephants then caching elephants can only do so much. DimSum turns those big elephant images into ones that are small and quality-controlled. And it does so in real-time. This plugin resizes all blog images (home, post and pages) to their tagged width and height, and changes the compression for a perfect balance between quality and speed as seen fit by you, the site owner. It makes elephants into bite-sized dimsum whenever possible. Results include not only increased performance but also increased site aesthetics and ease of use. A) Performance issues include faster page delivery. Speed increases range from minor to significant, depending on the mis-matching of underlying file to that image seen by the user in the browser. It’s particularly useful for front pages that don’t use official thumbnail features but embed smaller representations of larger images. Optimizing large content is often the best way of increasing page delivery. As a corollary, DimSum decreases bandwidth usage which is important for (cloud) users who pay per usage. B) Ease of use improvements are significant. Use an image without regard for its size. Which means no endless sizing in Photoshop or GIMP. One image is resized to perfectly suit each different page use in real-time. Moreso, don’t rely on the few thumbnail sizes given to you by your theme. Generate any size you want without disturbing your site delivery time. Save in the highest quality in Photoshop/Gimp. Upload and then downgrade in DimSum until a perfect tradeoff between quality and size is found. And, in WordPress, select the perfect size to match your content, using the 90%, 80%, 70%, 60% … scaling in the post area. Finally, within seconds crank up or down the compression quality setting to suit the number of visitors (and thus server load) your site receives to better address your customer’s needs — until you upgrade to a faster server. Because one drowned server can ruin your day. C) In the aesthetic department, images are not stretched out beyond their viewable resolution. In fact, images are perfect WYSIWYG between image on the filesystem and image in the browser, in terms of resolution and size. Nevertheless, nothing can increase quality beyond that found in the original file, so use the highest quality in the first upload.

WPSearch 2 is a major update to the highest rated search plug-in for WordPress, WPSearch. This plugin focuses on search relevancy and speed. If you find this project useful and you want to support it, just follow @_kennyk_ on Twitter 🙂 The major features of WPSearch 2 are: * Super-fast search speed * Unmatched and customizable search relevancy * Control over boosting the importance of title and content fields * Instantly updated searching after a post has been written * Searching of any type of post * Wildcard and Boolean operator support * Category searching Requirements: * WordPress 3 * The iconv library/multibyte support (Usually installed/enabled on a server by default. If not, have an admin compile PHP with --enable-mbstring). Coming soon!: Exclude certain posts or categories (a long-standing feature request). Note: If you have a large site with over 10,000 posts, consider using WPSearch Premium, which has all the power of this free repository version, but can handle up to 500,000 posts under heavy load and faster speed with it’s low-level backend driver. To learn more, email [email protected]. Manual Installation Install WPSearch 2 from the WordPress plugin admin panel if possible. If you are upgrading from a previous version, it is recommended that you rebuild your index after the upgrade. * Copy the wpsearch folder to the WordPress plugins directory * Set permissions of the wpsearch directory to 777 (very important!): $ chmod -R 777 wpsearch/* * Activate wpSearch * Go to Settings-->WPSearch Options, and click "Build Index" * Click "Save Changes" and wait until the page reloads (this can take a while depending on the number of posts in your blog) * Go to your blog's search box and search. Do the results look better? Cool! Did you have trouble installing? Let me know! [email protected] Note: Don’t forget the bit about changing folder permissions! Fix Log 2.0.3.0: Fixed file path inclusion issue for Zend library. Added notice in case user does not have multibyte support. 2.0.2.5: Stopped WPSearch from interfering with admin post search, fixed error message in WP admin page registration 2.0.2.0: Added customizable searching of post types, and a relevancy fix 2.0.1.2: Fixed ‘quick edit’ javascript error due to erroneous inclusion, added fix for long indexing times 2.0.1.0: Re-added ability to boost title and content, fixed pagination bug 2.0.0.0: Complete rewrite with a bunch of new features. Check it out! 1.5.0.5: Null Result Fix ( Finally! ), logging support, search library upgrade (ZF v1.5.3) 1.5.0.1: Comment Searching, Foreign Character support, ‘Phone Home’ 1.5.0.0: Faster searching, core integration, 0 style or javascript includes Known Conflictions wpSearch is known to react with certain plugins which manipulate search results. These plugins most likely expect the default WordPress search to in use, which it is not. The following plugins are known to cause issues: Custom Query String ( CQS ) Headspace2 Send all bug reports to [email protected].