I have been using WordPress.com Stats plugin on my site, along with other sites that I install and manage. Lately, I have noticed sluggish page loads and tried to find the source of it. The FireBug add-on to Firefox has facilities to show what loads and how fast. Among the scripts that load was one from quantserve.com and I knew I had removed the Quantcast script with which I experimented for a while. By trial and error, turning the plugins off and on, I was able to trace the source to WordPress.com Stats. I could not find a reasonable answer by thinking about it, so I posted a forum question on WordPress.org about the matter. In several days no answer came from any source. Then I decided to do a more careful search on the WordPress forum and, sure enough, I found the answer. In a forum thread Matt Mullenweg confirmed that they have been collaborating with Quantcast and some undisclosed features would be coming soon. [Read more...]

I use NextGEN Gallery in combination with HighSlide to present a group of images. In between the two is the useful plugin WS-Highslide which embeds the HS code on every page automatically on the fly.

On some occasions, especially on sites that I build for others, I want to add a title to the displayed image for added information. This stumped me for a while as there are no check-boxes or other configuration options in either NGG or HS. A little investigation and reading lead me to the solution of adding the following lines to the HighSlide code into the WS-Higslide configuration script:

hs.show_caption=”y”;
hs.captionEval = “this.thumb.title”;  (this will display the contents of the “Title” field in NGG)

or:
hs.captionEval = “this.a.title”;  (this will display the contents of the “Caption” field in NGG)

I hope this helps others who may be trying to do the same.