Month: March 2012

  • Sneak peek at the new Theme Previewer Feature in the upcoming WordPress 3.4 Release

    So it’s been a while since I checked out the bleeding edge dev trunk for WordPress. I spotted todays Dev Chat blog post from Jane Wells and I managed to find a few spare minutes this evening and pulled down the latest nightly build (3.4-alpha-20291 as of writing). One feature immediately jumped out of me…

  • Empowering journalists with WordPress

    Great write up from Ryan on how journalists can leverage WordPress. One of my pet peeves — major, major pet peeves — is when sites break up articles into multiple pages. You’ve probably seen it before: two or three thousand words, spread out so that around 800 words or so occupy each page. I’m sorry if you…

  • In like a lion

    There’s an old weather expression about March In like a lion….out like a lamb Well whatever about the weather, from a workload perspective March definitely came in like a lion and it’s pretty much going out like a lion too! The good news is that the cloning project is going well and I should have…

  • High Performance WordPress – Part 5 – Varnish Cache

    High Performance WordPress – Part 5 – Varnish Cache

    Boom! At long last the eagerly awaited Part 5 of our High Performance WordPress series sees the light of day! For those who have not been following along, a quick primer on the other parts in the series: Part 1 – VPS Setup Part 2 – nginx/mysql setup Part 3 – WordPress setup & tuning…