Posted by David Rashty on Feb 11, 2015 in Other, WordPress
This morning, as I was browsing through my Linkedin feed, I came across a rather surprising question, posted on a large WordPress developers group. At first it seemed like a trivial question, but having taken a moment of thought, I realized there was actually no definite answer, and became curious to see what responses people come up with.
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Posted by David Rashty on Apr 30, 2013 in Other
While Vimeo’s Advanced API works quite nicely for public videos, it has some limitations for private ones. First, you need to authenticate using OAuth 1.0a Protocol (which is not surprising, having in mind you want to access your private videos). However, even as an authenticated user, vimeo.videos.search API method will not return any private videos in a result.
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Posted by David Rashty on Jan 31, 2013 in Other
Optimizing a WordPress site can be a tedious process. To improve its overall performance it takes several small steps and may well take at least a few optimization cycles. We have dealt with several sites which included large scale databases and many installed WordPress plug-ins, and we managed to improve their performance and change their overall rating from D or E (as measured by the GTmetrix level) to A or B. This was also reflected in the time it took to load the website which we view as one of the most important metrics in the optimization process
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