Some times I like to look at metrics. Because I am bored? Probably. Without metrics how can really compare things. In any case I wanted to see the difference in the number of queries, generation time and peak memory usage between WordPress 2.9.2 and WordPress 3.0. One of the things that I have heard people … Continue reading
Recently I have been getting a lot of questions about how to use a MySQL socket in place of the DB_HOST constant for WordPress in the WordPress IRC channel. Fortunately this is pretty easy, unfortunately if you are using the web based installer you cannot specify a socket in the “Database Host” field. However, you … Continue reading
Normally I start these posts with “Every so often someone asks a question in the WordPress IRC channel that sparks my interest”, however today, to my great surprise someone actually caught my attention on the wp-hackers mailing list. For those of you who didn’t click through, the question was: Couldn’t find this on forums or … Continue reading
This release of Shadowbox JS has been a long time coming and I am extremely happy to announce its release. With the upstream final release of shadowbox.js 3.0 came a lot of changes to the way this plugin had to work. The shadowbox.js file is now built on the fly and if possible cached to … Continue reading
I’ve gotten into this bad habit of not writing about anything except WordPress on this site. It’s quite sad in a way that I have this great publishing platform and I only write about WordPress, and I do so very little. Many years ago, I don’t remember how many exactly, I was challenged by my … Continue reading
