Archive for February, 2009
WordCamp Denver
Written by Matt on February 28, 2009 – 3:00 am -
Magazine Theme
Written by Matt on February 27, 2009 – 6:45 am -Check out “Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme. Even better: it’s GPL.
WP Super Cache 0.9.1
Written by Donncha on February 26, 2009 – 8:13 am -WP Super Cache version 0.9.1 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.
Major changes under the hood in this release, and many bugfixes:
- If your blog is installed in a folder then compare the mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess with those on the admin page. I fixed a bug in how those are generated.
- Out goes the shutdown function the plugin relied on for years (going back to the days of wp-cache), and in comes plain old output buffering on it’s own.
- If you’ve had problems clearing the cache on your blog it could be because wp-cron isn’t firing. I’ve added checks for that. Joost helped me debug that and he blogged about it too. You’ll get a nice warning message if those checks fail.
- If after all that, your cache still doesn’t clear, add
$wp_cache_shutdown_gc = 1;to wp-content/wp-cache-config.php to clear the cache at the end of pageload instead of by wp-cron. It will slow down page generation for a tiny number of your users though. - The Last and Next garbage collection times are now in the timezone selected for your blog.
- Added an admin notice on the plugin page to warn that caching has to be enabled. A warning is shown below the plugin activation row too.
- If your site runs on a Windows server, I fixed a small problem with slashes and creating the config file.
- The plugin created empty supercache folders, but that’s fixed now.
- Bad Behaviour support seems to work nicely now!
- You can now relocate the supercache plugins folder. See $wp_cache_plugins_dir in wp-cache-config-sample.php.
- I added 2 new filters: wp_cache_served_cache_file in wp-cache-phase1.php (BB uses this) and wp_cache_file_contents in wp-cache-phase2.php where you can filter the contents of the newly created cache before it’s written out to a file.
- The readme.txt has been updated too warning about using NFS to store the cache folder, solving wp-cron problems, added the list of Apache modules required for expired pages to really expire in the browser cache.
I also added a donation link in the readme.txt and on the admin page. You can hide it with the click of a button but if you’re feeling generous, I’d appreciate a donation.
I don’t expect many donations, that’s how these things work, but if you tell me your site does 100,000 page views a day and you couldn’t live without caching I might be slightly annoyed if you come looking for free support.
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The Irish Blog Awards in Pictures
Written by Donncha on February 23, 2009 – 5:16 pm -As I may have mentioned once or twice before, we were at The Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night. Here are a few photos. They’re after the jump because there are 70 there and I’d hate to see them load every time someone loaded the front page of my site!
Gallery of shots from the photowalk to come tomorrow. Possibly over 100 shots in that. I do like to take photos don’t I?
BTW - Please Photoshop Grandad above. What’s he saying? Two example to follow ..
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- Irish Blog Awards - Who’s your favourite?
- Irish Blog Awards - You can start voting now!
- Irish Blog Awards on March 3rd
Ryanair Diss
Written by Matt on February 23, 2009 – 9:12 am -In a relatively bizarre case an employee of Ryanair left disparaging remarks about WordPress on someone’s blog. Someone with the airline should apologize.
WordPress and Blacknight power the best Irish blogs
Written by Donncha on February 23, 2009 – 5:15 am -Last Saturday night many of the Irish blogging community got together in The Cork International Airport Hotel for the Irish Blog Awards. I was there with my wife Jacinta, it was a great night and I was delighted to see so many WordPress powered blogs. Both WordPress.org and WordPress.com blogs were represented again and again among the top bloggers in Ireland.
I had planned on writing a post analysing the breakdown of WordPress vs Blogspot vs MT vs everyone else but lucky for me, Cathal Garvey already did the hard work!
He has some very interesting stats on version numbers, and I’m shocked that “Best Technology Blog” (sponsored by Bitbuzz) has the worst record for upgrading WordPress. Hopefully this attention will encourage those bloggers to upgrade.
WordPress is the most popular blogging software among the Blog Awards nominees and Blacknight is by far the most popular hosting service. I don’t think you can get a better recommendation than that for either WordPress or Blacknight.
BTW - That’s Grandad in the photo above. Go read his blog, Head Rambles. You’ll love it!
PS. Here are the results of the Awards, read more by Red Mum, Robert, Niall and Jason who reminds us we should vote for the excellent Cork International Airport Hotel.
I’ll be uploading photos from the night in a post here and to Pixie later.
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Back from The Irish Blog Awards 2009
Written by Donncha on February 21, 2009 – 7:43 pm -Jacinta and I are just back from the The 2009 Irish Blog Awards and we’re elated after the experience. If I thought I could convey half the good humour and energy and enthusiasm I’d try but I know I’d fail dismally. It was a wonderful night, full of great people and I’m only sorry we couldn’t stay longer and chat some more!
Thank you Damien and everyone who helped. You pulled off a hugely success celebration of Irish blogging.
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- Irish Blog Awards - You can start voting now!
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Om’s India Posts
Written by Matt on February 19, 2009 – 10:11 pm -Om has been doing a bit of blogging from here in India: More Bars in More Places and What the Taj Mahal and Apple Have in Common.
ReadWriteWeb France
Written by Matt on February 19, 2009 – 9:37 pm -ReadWriteWeb France Catches Up with Matt Mullenweg. The French version of RWW uses WordPress and is doing really well.
