A number of folks have asked for detailed step-by-step instructions so here’s how I added a nice Carousel to the Arthemia theme running under Wordpress. I use the free version of the Arthemia theme which doesn’t have a carousel out of the box. It’s easy to add one though and of course these instructions apply regardless of the theme you’re using so here goes.
I’ll assume you have Wordpress installed, doesn’t matter which version.
Depending on the theme you use, the pages you’ll need to edit are located in a folder under …

Wordpress is nice but it’s a bit of a hog CPU-wise. Jeff Atwood has a nice piece on this entitled “Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs“.
We have a big set of releases coming up at work and I’ve become a bit obsessed with performance. We’re not using Wordpress but I figured performance improvement, just like anything, starts at home. So ever since installing Wordpress with this Arthemia theme I’ve been tweaking to try to get the most out of it.
I’m measuring performance using Fiddler 2, starting with clear browser, …

Wordpress is pretty nice out of the box but there’s a few things you’ll want to do on top of the base install. I’ve been tweaking Wordpress 2.7 since the day I installed it. It’s humming just as I like now and I figured I’d share the few things I changed.

I started with wordpess 2.5 which was my host’s default installation. I immediately upgraded to 2.7. This was as simple as ftp’ing some files across and running a database script.
I migrated my old data, which was in SQL Server into …