Archive for the ‘technology’ Category

Advanced WordPress Export/Import

A while back I wrote a post about importing and exporting with greater detail on the wordpress ideas forum.    Here is a recap of what I wrote:

I always find myself poking around the WordPress Ideas forum to see what other users think of for suggestions of improving wordpress.    The wordpress.org team is really good at [...]

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Back On WordPress.com

I have been hosted on more  hosting providers than I care to admit.   I find myself extremely comfortable on shared, VPS and dedicated hosting.    Despite that, I have decided to move all my personal blogs to wordpress.com.    Why would I do this?   This post is actually meant to be a little [...]

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Quick Saturday Update

I have been really busy over the past couple of months and it looks like the next month isn’t going to be any less relaxed, but a quick blog post is in order to tell you some of the things I have been up to:

Backing up Twitter – This is not exactly the most important [...]

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HyperDB Explained Part 2

This is the second part in my effort to help explain how you can use HyperDB to scale your large WordPress, WordPress MU or Buddypress sites.     You can read the first part in the series here!    First off, again:

This tutorial was written for testing and personal purposes.
I make no warranty that this will work for [...]

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HyperDB Explained Part 1

HyperDB is a replacement for the standard WPDB class which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.
HyperDB is a plugin written by matt, andy, ryan, & mdawaffe from Automattic.     It is written primarily as a way to help larger sites manage growth as well [...]

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TalkPress Released

Much to the dismay of certain phpBB users, the install of phpBB 3 on TalkPress really was a joke. Once the spam content was too much to take, the members of automattic decided to put the new TalkPress install of bbPress on the domain for their testing purposes.  TalkPress will be the [...]

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Buddypress Forums Tutorial

****Works with BB RC 1.0, BP 1.0, MU 2.7.1 ****
I already have a sticky post in the buddypress forums, but thought I would also put this up on my blog for anyone else that this might help on getting forums integrated properly with buddypress.   It changes often, but this works correctly as of the date [...]

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WP Super Cache 0.92 Released

Donncha was wondering when the 800th trackback to his plugin would happen and I thought I would give him my best effort
While he hasn’t created a blog post for it, I was notified in my Dashboard that 0.92 was released and I updated today.   In a twitter conversation today, Donncha mentioned that he [...]

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Apple Haters?

Found this one and thought it was funny. See! I am not just a mac lover

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