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URL Sentences in WordPress

Chris Coyier — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:47:06 +0000

WPCandy is back under Ryan Imel and it’s been loaded with good stuff lately, including this great run-through of how to use Chris Shiflett’s URL sentences idea in WordPress.

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Delay Loading of Print CSS

Chris Coyier — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:53:47 +0000

Peter Wilson walks us through making sure print stylesheets are loaded after the rest of the page is loaded, so they don’t hold up page rendering.

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Digg Technical Talks – Rasmus Lerdorf

Chris Coyier — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:20:40 +0000

Pardon my ignorance here, but Rasmus starts talking about latency and concurrent requests about 16:30. He then mentions “one line of code” installation of something that sounds like “aqua code cache” that gives WordPress a 3x performance boost in response time / number of transactions per second. Anyone knows what he’s talking about there, shoot a note and I’ll update this permalink with the info. He goes on to talk about much more hardcore-PHP-nerd WordPress optimization stuff.

The scoop via Joost Schuur:
Rasmus is talking about an ‘opcode cache’. It essentially caches the parsed PHP scripts in memory. That means PHP doesn’t have to read it from disk or even convert the humanly readable PHP script code into executable machine code (opcode). The one he’s referring to is APC, which is likely going to be included in the next big release of PHP. Xcache is another popular kind. I run it on my site and got about a 3x performance increase on page request server times, so the numbers add up. The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin has the option of using Xache or APC to keep popular pages in memory via opcode caching.

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WordPress Update: 3.0.1

Jeff Starr — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:00:53 +0000

Just a reminder that WordPress version 3.0.1 is available, so take a few moments and update your website. Staying current is one of the best ways to keep things running smooth, safe and secure. The new version addresses about 50 minor issues and helps to make WordPress 3.0 even better.

Amazingly, WordPress 3.0 was downloaded nearly 11 million times in 42 days. So HUGE congrats and thanks to the entire WordPress crew for an amazing piece of software.

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WordPress E-Junkie Plugin

Chris Coyier — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:07:35 +0000

We use E-Junkie ourselves on this site to sell the book. This plugin brings to two together to theoretically make that process easier.

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WPAlchemy MetaBox PHP Class

Jeff Starr — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:37:32 +0000

This looks awesome: “The WPAlchemy MetaBox PHP Class can be used to create WordPress meta boxes quickly. It will give you the flexibility you need as a developer, allowing you to quickly build custom meta boxes for your themes and plugins.”

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(Meta) Conversation on Frameworks

Chris Coyier — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:50:56 +0000

The discussion starter post last week about WordPress theme frameworks worked nicely. I really enjoyed the comment thread that took place so I thought I’d point it back out to people who may have missed that or didn’t see it fully developed. Specific thanks to Justin Tadlock and Nathan Rice for sharing their thoughts as authors of popular frameworks.

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WordPress Podcast: Digging into CSS Trickery & WordPress

Chris Coyier — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:06:43 +0000

I was on the WordPress Podcast with Joost De Valk talking about a whole bunch of things including WordPress 3.0 which was freshly out.

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Moving a WordPress Site

Chris Coyier — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:06:16 +0000

I did a screencast where I took a site that was working on localhost and moved it up to a live domain name. This involved moving the files, moving the database, and altering some information in the database. This is a good thing to know how to do if you are just getting into WordPress development. It is also just as relevant in moving a WordPress site from one domain to a different domain.

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Joomla Beats WordPress?

Chris Coyier — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:50:33 +0000

Here are a few specific circumstances where elmalak feels that Jooma is better than WordPress. I understand some, disagree with others. I’m always interested in debates comparing different CMSs, but have never read anything that really nailed it. Largely I think people defend the one that they use the most and the one they feel most productive using. Hey, that’s what I do.

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