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WordPress has integrated a pretty good solution for generating scheduled tasks, such as publishing scheduled posts or activating the backup script. By default it’s executed when a visitor arrives on your website. The system checks if a scheduled task needs executing or not.

Getting your readers involved in the discussion by leaving comments has always been a hot subject. There are several tips you can try to increase the rate of visitors commenting before leaving your blog. One of those tips is rewarding commentators with something useful – getting their name on the top list.

Every time you edit a post a new revision is added to the database. This means with every update a new row is added to the wp_posts table. So if you update your post lets say 20 times total, you can find 20 rows with revisions from that table. This only occurs when you update the post, auto-save feature doesn’t create revisions.

This feature is useful when you have several people editing posts. Personally I never use it and actually find it quite irritating. So as I was disabling it a thought about a new blog post occurred in my mind.

With using fancy transparent graphics on your website you can easily increase the loading times and also the bandwidth consumption. Would you want to look at a site that’s loading for more than a few seconds? Don’t think so. Pngcrush to the rescue!

Pngcrush is a tool that helps you in making your PNG files smaller in size while preserving the quality. It’s a command line optimizer meant for LINUX or UNIX environments. You can even run it in a MSDOS window. It tries out different compression methods and with the best found solution it then compresses your file to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream.

Showing related posts has always been a great way to keep visitors on your blog a bit longer.

When your visitors are searching for certain info on your site related content is the best way to offer more data to search from. With WordPress providing a list of related posts is very easy.

But why would you do it without a plugin?

It’s because the less plugins you use the faster your blog is. And don’t you feel that much better about yourself when you’ve done the work by yourself? I know I do.

A great way to show off your most popular posts is create a small list either in your sidebar or in the footer. Your visitors will have a clear view of your most popular posts and it’s also a good way for you to see which topics generate the most discussions.

WordPress has several plugins for this to create such a widget. But what if your theme doesn’t support widgets or you want to place it in a different position?