http://trentadams.com the world through the eyes of trent adams Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:27:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/07/02/advanced-wordpress-exportimport/ 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/06/01/back-on-wordpress-com/ 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/05/23/quick-saturday-update/ 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/05/08/hyperdb-explained-part-2/ Not sure who to give copyright to for this photo, but funny! http://trentadams.com/2009/05/04/flu-stresses-relationships/ Last night I was sitting around and caught a movie that had a short clip from "Where are you going?" by Dave Matthews Band.   I loved and almost completely forgot that song!    It was fun to hear it again, so I decided to record a quick version of it on ... http://trentadams.com/2009/04/25/where-are-you-going/ 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/04/18/hyperdb-explained-part-1/ 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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/04/09/talkpress-released/ I am a huge fan of Saving Abel and was lucky enough to watch them live last week. They opened up for Nickelback along with Seether. My biggest complaint was that they never managed to get the sound checks correct and not only was the ... http://trentadams.com/2009/04/08/goodbye/ ****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 ... http://trentadams.com/2009/04/01/buddypress-forums-tutorial/