After installing Alex King’s “Share This” plugin I found my blog site was super slow. I checked the code and found out the problem is the javascript used by “Share This” plugin was not installed locally –it was downloaded from http://sharethis.com every time the page was viewed. In another word, your web site will be slow if sharethis.com is slow.

So you should uninstall Alex King’s stuff and install Social Bookmarks Plugin for WordPress from http://www.dountsis.com/projects/social-bookmarks.

Technorati : Plugin, Share This, Social Bookmarks, WordPress

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1, See this post to create self-sign SSL certificate. http://www.my-whiteboard.com/linux-admin/set-up-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-wordpress.html

2, Install Admin-SSL (secure-admin) for WordPress (skip this step for MediaWiKi).

http://haris.tv/2007/04/24/admin-ssl-new-wordpress-plugin/

3, Edit your httpd.conf file, add the following lines to virtual host:

<Directory "/home/wordpress/webapps">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.jsp
#Options +Includes
#AllowOverride all
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
RewriteRule !^wp-(admin|login|register)(.*) - [C]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L]

# For a site running on port 80 (http)
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^wp-(admin|login|register)(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}:10001/wp-$1$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</Directory>

4, Add the following lines to ssl.conf file:

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /home/wordpress/ssl/www.researchgrantdatabase.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/wordpress/ssl/www.researchgrantdatabase.com.key
SetEnvIf User-Agent “.*MSIE.*” nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown

<Directory “/home/wordpress/webapps”>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.jsp
#Options +Includes
#AllowOverride None
AllowOverride All
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

5, Restart Apache

apachectl restart