By marco on August 20, 2011
Ever wanted to learn how Auttomatic is handling & scaling the massive WordPress.com installation of 25 Million+ blogs? And, how they deploy code updates and fixes across 3 data centers and 1000s of servers?
Check out the video below from WordCamp San Francisco (WordCampSF) 2011 and watch the talk of Mark Jaquith (WordPress core developer).
Please [...]
Posted in How To, Open Source, Wordpress | Tagged deployments, scale, scaling
By marco on April 12, 2010
Are you hosting Wordpress yourself?
A great new feature is that you’re now able to keep the Wordpress core folders and files in a separate sub folder.
The core files are all the Wordpress installation files which you never touch or alter. All the other files which you upload, plug-ins, themes and configuration files are kept apart. [...]
Posted in How To, Wordpress | Tagged sub folder configuration, wordpress, wordpress installation
By marco on April 10, 2010
Do you sometimes wonder if there is still some tweak which needs to be done to your post to optimize your content for search engines?
If you don’t than you might miss out on a lot of organic traffic from search engines. There are many rules to follow to make your content perform best and to appear [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Tools | Tagged copywriting, optimize content, search engine optimization, SEO
By marco on April 8, 2010
I found a great presentation about Wordpress security which shows some great ways to harden your Wordpress installation. This is very important if your’re hosting you own version of Wordpress.
In this presentation you’ll find out about:
How to do regular database backups
Changing your administrator account user name
How to change your security keys: ensure better encryption of [...]
Posted in How To, Wordpress | Tagged backups, harden Wordpress, security, Wordpress security
By marco on October 19, 2009
Wordpress has a built in autosave feature that automatically saves when you’re editing a post. A big disadvantage is the default frequency at which it saves your posts, every minute is kinda often. So, if you use the WP editor to write your posts than you save quiet often and it might interrupt your editing.
What [...]
Posted in How To, Wordpress | Tagged autosave, post revisions
By marco on October 18, 2009
Wordpress is getting a lot of updates lately and it is important to stay up to date with your installation. Even more important if its “only” a minor update, but a security update!
Wordpress introduced a very simple way in the current version (v2.8) called auto-upgrade. See Upgrading Wordpress:
Recent versions of WordPress feature an Automatic Upgrade. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Tools, Wordpress | Tagged auto-upgrade, svn, upgrading, wp, wpmu
By marco on August 20, 2008
Today I installed a new Wordpress plugin from MyBlogLog called JusrForYou.
You see an example set of recommendations to the left (taken from the quoted blog post below).
Here is the blog post explaining a little more about it “Just for You Personalizes Your WordPress Blog“:
Yet, none of these add-ons look at the stated interests of the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Tools, Wordpress | Tagged JustForYou, MyBlogLog, personalization, plugin, recommendation, related posts, wordpress
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