Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress
The short version: We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with...
View ArticleDiff’ing wordpress releases
A new wordpress release is out and you’d like to know what’s changed? Sure, you can read the changelog, but is that REALLY enough? Point your interweb box to: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/ and...
View ArticleHow to move a wordpress multisite to a new “folder”
Moving a wordpress multisite (a SINGLE site, not an entire install) to a new subfolder (not really a folder as it’s virtual, but whatever) is not hard, but it’s also not as easy as it should be. Here...
View Article“Auto unlock” BS – the most obnoxious thing I have seen in my life.
This site requires you to +1, log in with facebook or wait for a timeout before you view their “premium” site. You can, of course, just hide the div with the id “easy_fbbg” to get around this utter...
View ArticleMy first accepted contribution to the WordPress core
Yay. It’s pretty minor (a fix to the new WordPress XML-RPC api stuff) but it’s nice to see my name in the credits.
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