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More Tweaks and Stabilization on Tarn Aeluin

Beren Erchamion
June 21, 2013

I’m continuing to tweak and stabilize things here at the lake. Tweak: What’s been done removed the HighSlide gallery tool and replaced it with Image Gallery Re-Loaded added in wp-jquery-lightbox for single image lightbox effects updated to PHP 5.3 (which…

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Security and Reality

Beren Erchamion
January 18, 2013

I’ve been running my blog for a while now and finally I’m tired of the security crap. Its a bit sad I guess. My blog is pretty small – I don’t use ads or make any money at all on…

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Comparing Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Duckduckgo Search Engines

Beren Erchamion
August 18, 2012

Starting in about June I noticed an interesting trend in my traffic – search hits and traffic from google.com tumbled to 0 – no kidding 0. Now I don’t get tons of traffic in the first place, but I get…

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Performance Tuning a Hosted WordPress Blog

Beren Erchamion
August 12, 2012

So you got a hosted WordPress blog and you’re not 100% happy with performance. Even worse you signed a 2 year deal to get a good rate. Now what? Ugh! D’oh! Or use whatever colorful metaphor you would like. Here’s…

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Tarn Aeluin Turns 1 Year Old

Beren Erchamion
July 21, 2012

Its been a year now since I moved from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. In many ways it has been pretty easy to do this, but there’s a lot it. So read on if you are pondering this kind…

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Working with Highslide Pt. 1

Beren Erchamion
January 22, 2012

If you read my posts on images and wordpress you’ll know that I’m using Highslide for WordPress *reloaded* for my pics, but I’m just too picky to let things rest without them being just the way I like them. So…

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