Now that I have it working I’m not going to remove it but I’m also going to not recommend it unless you know how to deal with server errors. I’ve been doing sites for 10 years and that stuff still spooks me.

I have to agree about the complaint regarding WP speed and the resolution for it. All of these plugins are just a stopgap.

Jeremy: What, open source software get slower? No way! Everyone knows that Firefox 2 is MUCH faster than 1.

Kidding aside, the problem is widespread. Linux has the same issue, look at the latest version of Ubuntu vs. the previous ones. That is why I’m back on Mac. Deleting code just isn’t as glamorous, or as easy, as adding so I guess it isn’t done as much.

How do you reward programmers for the code they don’t write?

And I am glad that it was a compliment, of course, even if it wasn’t I was going to take it as one anyway.

And yeah they’d have to rewrite a good chunk of WP to get it faster. It is getting much faster in recent versions (even a year ago it ran much slower) – but there is a lot to be desired. The main problem isn’t with too many MySQL queries – the problem is it loads probably 100 files every time it gets executed. That’s actually one big problem I’ve noticed with a lot of open source software – it can get quite bloaty if there aren’t people who do nothing but remove useless code. Basically what they need to do is stop adding new features for one revision and do nothing but optimize it and fix bugs.

Probably the single best way to speed up wordpress – besides using something like Wp-Cache – is to have your host install something to cache your PHP scripts – that’ll keep them from being recompiled every single time someone loads your site.

Ah yes – and Jonathan – the “gory” comment was, indeed, a compliment