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
A few months ago I wrote part 1 and part 2 of WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin. Part 1 covered the basics of using the .maintenance file, and part 2 covered styling the maintenance page using wp-content/maintenance.php. Part 3 covers the short comings of the other 2 by addressing how to let a user … Continue reading
There will be a WordPress meetup held at the Automattic office at Pier 38 on August 11. I’ll be in San Francisco for the OpenSourceWorld Expo and will be attending the meetup. Numerous folks from Automattic should be there and there will be a demo of the GSoC project, currently called ‘Elastic’, which is the … Continue reading
