http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/

What's going on I wonder?

This is completely wacky.  It seems it's only related to that single comment I made above.  Any other comments and inserting a URL seems to work fine.  I'll turn on BTC again.

Lol!  Fighting over a single position in the comments.  Wonderful.  Aren't people funny?

Yes the comment box is part of the threaded comments plugin.  And yes it is nice isn't it?  I guess a well written plugin never ages.

After some pretty bad performance problems only on this blog yesterday after rebuilding Apache the other day, I decided to rebuild it again with a couple of changes.  Aha!  Much much better.  It doesn't matter if you don't know what I'm on about, it was a painful experience.

This morning I decided to see if I couldn't make it go even faster, so I grabbed another plugin called WP Super Cache written by one of the WordPress authors, Donncha O Caoimh.

After a bit of fiddling with permissions on directories and files I got it working.

All I can say is…  Wow!

I've had to disable a couple of other plugins in the meantime, but it's a small price to pay for the incredible speed increase.  Even though the server this blog runs on is in Texas, it draws the page pretty damn quickly to me here in the UK, and I'm very pleased (so far) with it.

If I run into any major problems, I'll do a post about it.  But so far, so good.

-Frank

Addendum
Well, it looks like there *may* be a slight problem with WP Super Cache and Brian's Threaded Comments.  I made the above comment, posted it as a reply back to yours, but no content appeared.  It looks like it's related to the link I put in to the WP Super Cache page, but I'm not sure exactly what's going yet.  I turned the cache off and cleared it, but still the same problem.

Oh well, I might have to remove the threaded comments…

Extra sentence space - cool! I'm old school too and I like 2 spaces after a full stop, but the internet world seems to have decided that it's no longer necessary. Who voted it in - I didn't!

I've already implemented top commenters on my main blog as part of the theme and if nothing else it's rather nice to show that a few people are at least reading it. The competition element should be interesting to watch. It's likely to spur people on to make a comment to keep a particular slot.

There's another blogger who's used it to good effect - to the extent that it's caused a couple of arguments on his blog about top position. Over a period of just a couple of months his readership has increased and so have his comments, so it suggests it works very well.

The only thing that would worry me about such a thing is that if there are many pages on a blog the top commenter link will appear on all of them. If you lose the spot then Google will suddenly see hundreds of backlinks disappear. That's not always a good thing!

I like your new comment box too - is that part of the threaded comments plugin?

Amin