Once your wordpress blog starts getting traffic besides your mom and cousins you will likely have to start taking measures to reduce it’s cpu footprint.
Note: Some of these methods will work on a shared host without root access, but ssh is required for some methods, like installing memcached.
Step 1: Offload Images to Amazon S3
Images generally [...]
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This following bit of code should get you up and running with a simple way of sharing data from your wordpress blog with a flash object. Creating the XML file is a bit of a hastle, since you can’t output XML directly from a wordpress template file to flash. Instead you have to [...]
These steps are needed to prepare your wordpress blog for facebook connect integration using the WP-FBConnect Plugin. The plugin is documented here and you can download it here. The implementation is pretty simple, but there are some caveats as follows.
Step 1:
Add the language attributes wp function to your header(s). The plugin will [...]