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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

First, you’ll need a platform. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I’m very particular to Disqus as my commenting platform. I put much time into it. Blogger kinda sucks IMHO.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

First, you’ll need a platform. It’s much easier to build an audience in social blogging platforms the way you do in Twitter or Facebook. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so.

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