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What you can do to speed up your cheap ass shared hosting without too much technical know how. While talk of sites running on load balanced multi-server setups with Nginx reverse proxies, sharded databases and sever level caching is sexy … Continue reading Performance for Penny Pinchers →

A new Web 3.0 approach to using WordPress is with a fully dynamic, webapp running off AJAX. With one of Taylor’s WordPress-based technology blogs he runs, http://techcores.com, he has a ton of insight on how powerful the WordPress API really … Continue reading WordPress WebApps →

Often times people have wrung out all of WordPress’s options and settings and want it to do something a little more. It may be minor, but in some cases it requires the dreaded: code! You don’t need to know how … Continue reading Building your first plugin →

There is a lot of talk these days about taping into the resources available through external APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc). Much of the functionality needed to interact with APIs is already included in the core through the HTTP class. … Continue reading Interacting with external APIs →

Plugin developers need to use the power of WordPress so that other developers can extend the plugin and do exactly what they want. This subject is geared mainly toward developers. I’ll stress the importance of using the WordPress API but … Continue reading Plugging into plugins →

Does updating all your plugins by running `wp plugin update –all` sound too good to be true? Enter wp-cli, an open source WordPress management tool. Learn how to install it locally or globally on your host, perform common WordPress administration … Continue reading Manage WordPress with Awesome using wp-cli →

So everyone’s been to some WordCamp talk in the past about the benefits of using Amazon Web Services with your WordPress Install but few speakers have ever actually shown how to set it all up within the 30 minute talk … Continue reading WordPress on Amazon Web Services from Start to Finish →