Category Archives: CoolStuff
WordPress Caching Comparisons Part 2
This post has been on my mind for quite some time now, ever since I wrote Part 1 over 1 year ago. Part 1 only really addressed opcode and Object caching and didn’t really touch page caching. In this post … Continue reading
WordPress Caching Comparisons Part 1
For some time now I have been wanting to write an up to date XCache object cache plugin for WordPress. Around 4 years ago I did an opcode caching comparison between APC, XCache and eAccelerator. My results had shown that … Continue reading
WordPress Metric Comparison of 2.9.2 and 3.0
Some times I like to look at metrics. Because I am bored? Probably. Without metrics how can really compare things. In any case I wanted to see the difference in the number of queries, generation time and peak memory usage … Continue reading
Using MySQL Sockets in the WordPress wp-config.php
Recently I have been getting a lot of questions about how to use a MySQL socket in place of the DB_HOST constant for WordPress in the WordPress IRC channel. Fortunately this is pretty easy, unfortunately if you are using the … Continue reading
Detect wp_head and wp_footer from a Plugin
Normally I start these posts with “Every so often someone asks a question in the WordPress IRC channel that sparks my interest”, however today, to my great surprise someone actually caught my attention on the wp-hackers mailing list. For those … Continue reading
