I’ve just installed WordPress 1.5, which has a really dramatic change to the front end, but I’ve disabled those changes since I’m using this older template. However, the new backend is really much better organized. It comes default with the Staticize plugin so I’m trying it out. Staticize should help speed up this site’s performance because it reduces the numbers of calls to the database. We’ll see how this goes. Please leave a comment if you experience any difference in speed (better or worse) and if comments are broken please shoot me an email.
Update: I turned this off as it didn’t seem to make a difference.
It could be just me, but your pages are loading about 1-2 seconds slower that before. Then again, I just installed FF on my new machine, so there could be outside factors.
Well, seems the RSS feed is no longer working. I’ve noticed this on one other blog that also just upgraded.