WordPress 2.5+: Get Rid of That Sluggish Dashboard
Since WordPress 2.5 it was nearly impossible for me to log into WordPress and quickly head over to the write tab. The Dashboard always wants to load a bunch of things in it but this always seemed to fail in my setup and slow things down. And not enough the Dashboard just locks everything up while loading which can take more than one minute.
I’ve searched for a simple way of disabling those feeds, plugins etc. stuff the WordPress Dashboard tries to fill but it seems you can’t disable these from the backend. But there’s a quick way for doing this which involves editing your /wp-admin/index-extra.php and uncomment some lines there. This will leave your Dashboard intact while it stops WordPress from connecting to various sources to screw your blog up when you just want to quickly write something.
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Beside a new version of Color Efex Pro for Capture NX, Nik announced a brand new plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture.
As you may have noticed, kremalicious.com was a bit screwed in the last week and some of you have asked me via mail and twitter what exactly was wrong. So to satisfy the curious geek in you I will provide some informations about it.
