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alimadzi
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I recommend ShareThis:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/

It adds a simple icon to click that opens up a menu with all the major social networking/bookmarking options, so it's relatively unobtrusive. See it in action on my blog:

http://www.alimadzi.com
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That is a tight plugin. I may go fetch that myself. And I like your theme Patrick. It loads in just under three hours, but when it does, it looks very nice. :wink:
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yes that does look cool. thanks! :)
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Everah wrote:That is a tight plugin. I may go fetch that myself. And I like your theme Patrick. It loads in just under three hours, but when it does, it looks very nice. :wink:
Yikes! Is it really that slow? The theme itself is very lightweight, but I'm using three separate third-party stats packages: Google Analytics, Performancing, and Crazy Egg. Maybe I should dump one or two of those.

Egads! I just looked at my load times in Firebug and TinyMCE is frickin' 206K!!!! How is that tiny? All it does is allow a Word-like interface for comments, so I am disabling that plugin ASAP.

Thanks for the heads up...
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yea tinyMCE can be hefty. Is it compressed?
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alimadzi
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:yea tinyMCE can be hefty. Is it compressed?
Compressed? I'm not sure. What it is right now is gone. ;)

I need to be more careful in my plugin selection. Firebug says I'm also using Prototype and I'm not even sure where. Would be nice to dump that or at least convert the relevant JS to jQuery...
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Post by Luke »

check this thing out... it's awesome.

http://dean.edwards.name/packer/
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:check this thing out... it's awesome.

http://dean.edwards.name/packer/
Nice. It's now saved in my del.icio.us bookmarks...

http://del.icio.us/alimadzi/javascript
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