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Scaling WordPress

Ryan Allens Talk about some of the potential pitfalls and solutions when maintaining massive WordPress blogs, like Tuts+.

Interesting and funny.

Neue Features in WordPress 3.1

Schöne Zusammenfassung neuer Features in WordPress 3.1.

Post Formats klingen sehr spannend und nützlich für das Theming.
Und auch die Advanced Custom Field Queries scheinen mir sehr nützlich zu sein.

daily links

• t / Steve Losh
  t is a command-line todo list manager for people that want to finish tasks, not organize them.
• Minima Joomla 1.6 admin template released - Templates - Blog
  This is a template for the Joomla administrator that changes the way it’s presented. It also adds quite a few nifty features to the interface.
  The idea behind this first Minima release is to provide a minimal and sleek interface for Joomla’s backend. Mainly to simplify things with a great performance etc.
• Enhancing WordPress Custom Fields with Search Filtering
  In this guide, I’ll show you how to work with custom fields and how to make them even more powerful by adding the ability to display and filter them.
  What we are going to do is create a very simple events listing page for a company that organizes Jelly co-working events, located in the UK. We will make the events listing page sortable by county. Each post will be an event with a title, description and a custom field for the area the event based in.
• Highlighter
  Your readers will no longer have to scroll through endless amounts of comments and content to voice their opinion. It’s now as simple as highlighting a word or phrase, and directly attaching a comment. More context = better experience!

Theme Options for WordPress Themes

Auch wenn ich schon länger nicht mehr ernsthaft an WordPress Themes gearbeitet habe ist dieses längliche Posting von Chip Bennett ganz spannend:

This tutorial will attempt to provide examples of current (as of the pending release of WordPress 3.1) best-practice implementation, not merely of the Settings API, but of Theme Options implementation as a whole, including:

• Registering options in the database as a single options array
• Initializing default options
• Creating a single Theme Settings page (with tabs)
• Defining settings page sections and fields
• Validating and white-listing user-input form data
• Adding Settings Page contextual help
• Enqueueing custom CSS for the Settings page
• Implementing settings in the Theme template files
• Enqueueing front-end CSS

daily links

• Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Google Map Selector
  This jQuery script lets you easily embed a Google Map on your page that supports switching between multiple addresses. A two column layout is presented by default, with the list of desired addresses on the left column and a Google Map on the right. The script automatically adds a CSS class of "selected" to the selected address’s LI container to highlight the current address while updating the "View Larger Map" link below the Google map to the appropriate link as well.
• Exclude Posts and Pages in WordPress Search
  Sometimes you don’t like to display every post and page on search results. Today I like to show you how to filter the search in your frontend. Therefore I add a filter to the query of WordPress and exclude the according posts or pages of the search.
• Fast 404 | drupal.org
  Drupal has expensive 404 errors. On an ‘average’ site with an ‘average’ module load, you can be looking at 60-100MB of memory being consumed on your server to deliver a 404. Consider a page with a bad .gif link and a missing .css file. That page will generate 2 404s along with the actual load of the page. You are most likely looking at 180MB of memory to server that page rather than the 60MB it should take.
  That’s where Fast 404 comes in. This module combines a very common method of handling missing image/file 404 errors (discussed here and planned for Drupal with a method created by dpardo (a co-maintainer of this project) to deliver super fast 404 error pages for both missing images and bad paths. Depending on which method of implementation you choose (aggressive or super aggressive) you can deliver 404 errors using less than 1MB of memory on your server.