Posts Tagged “WordPress”

WordPress MU 2.8.1

WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com. Just a day after WordPress 2.8.1 came out and here’s WordPress MU 2.8.1. The original WordPress announcement has plenty to say about this release, but what you need to know is this is a security [...]

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WordPress MU 2.8.1 beta

WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that can be used to run sites like WordPress.com. MU Admins! Please download and test wpmu-2.8.1-beta.zip on a test server! This is a beta release that is this <—> close to being final but it needs testing by the community. It works fine [...]

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Go Mobile with Supercache

I’ll be honest, I don’t have much experience with mobile content. I’ve rarely browsed the net on a mobile device. I don’t have an iPhone and don’t intend buying one but lots of people do use mobile devices to browse online. With that in mind, and after some pestering by Vladimir I modified WP Super [...]

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WordPress MU Catchup: big merge, wpmudev goes gpl and MU support

Exciting times in the world of WordPress and WordPress MU. Last weekend’s announcement by Matt that WordPress MU would merge into WordPress caused a flurry of activity and questions on twitter and on blogs, most notably with speculation that WordPress.org would run on MU and by jeffr0 who asked me on IRC what was happening. [...]

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Looking at a WPMU Object Cache

In the good ol’ days WordPress came with a filesystem object cache but it was removed some time ago because it was a pain to maintain, and caused problems for some users, especially those using NFS. Nowadays there is an object cache built in, but the cache only survives for as long as a page [...]

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John, my personal spammer!

With apologies to anyone named John. Spammers are getting more clever at spreading their links. Now legitimate website owners are using software tools that allow them to enter keywords of their choice to a create a list of related blogs with comment forms. Many of these applications list blogs that pass Google Rank to the [...]

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WordPress MU 2.7.1

WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that can be used to run sites like WordPress.com. This release of WordPress MU has been much delayed but I think it’s been worth the wait. Included in this release are a number of new features and many bugfixes. Get it from the [...]

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WordPress MU 2.7.1 beta 2

WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that can be used to run sites like WordPress.com. The 2.7.1 release is very close now. I have just uploaded wordpress-mu-2.7.1-beta2.zip for your enjoyment. 2.7.1 has taken longer than usual to come out, mainly because of the large number of bug fixes and [...]

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Three links for WordPress developers

WordPress Coding Standards. I used to be a big fan of the “curly bracket on it’s own line” but many years ago that was beaten out of me. Coding standards can be a subjective preference, but they’re very useful when reading code created by others. Data Validation. It’s vitally important that the data your web [...]

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HOWTO: Make WordPress plugins work with WP Super Cache

Thaya Kareeson has written an excellent article for plugin developers. It goes through how to make plugins work with WP Super Cache by using dynamic AJAX calls. WP Super Cache can make static html copies of pages served by WordPress which is great for performance. Unfortunately that means some plugins don’t work because they rely [...]

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache