WordPress Training: Speed up WordPress with Gears for Internet Explorer
Gear is a little addition to your regular web browser that speeds along the way you use web applications like wordpress, making them more like the application from your desktop like word, excel, iphoto, or keynote. It does that by copying essential files over from the web to your computer so that everytime you have to do something new, your computer does not need to pull 100% of the information down from the web every single time.
In the case of wordpress, that means you can glide through tasks quicker than you could with that gears – whether you are using a wordpress.com blog or self hosting your own wordpress. So how do you get it up and running?
This short video will show you how to get gears installed in your browser of choice. So the first thing you wanna do is head to http://gears.google.com., and when you’re there click on install gears. Read through the terms and condition if you must and when you’re good to go click on agree and download and internet explorer will offer a warning for you. Click up here for the options and choose download file. That’s gonna open up and just click “run” and you’ll see if that doesn’t run automatically click “run” again and the file will start doing their thing and when it’s done, you can restart your browser and then you gotta head to wordpress.
So when you you’re inside wordpress look for the turbo button next to your name top right in the dashboard and then you’re gonna click on enable gears from this tool menu here. It’s gonna say do you trust this site, and we do ‘coz it’s our blog, click on yes and click allow. And then you’ll see that it updates and this can take a while. I actually sped this up and once it’s done, you’ll have a souped up blog much quicker than before.
About the Author
Andy Johnson has been on the Internet since the its dawn(ie his first computer program was recorded on cassette tape) and his first hard drive cost about as much his current MacBook. His first byline was in 1993 for a local newspaper rag he eventually helmed, and his last “real job” was at a computer start up which ended when it ended. Throughout it all he’s freelanced and blogged. Now he is mesmerized by Search Engine Optimization forever trying to “rise to the top” for the right reasons. He’s been married to his wife Julia for as long as he can remember and has two lovely, wonderful children. He looks forward to sharing the latest in the technical best for all the online entrepreneurs.