Around the WordPress Community: W3 Total Cache, PHP 4 or 5, KSES.php, CRON, and More Links
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 7 2010 at 4:03 am | View Comments
This week’s “Around WordPress” found some clever examples of using the W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin developed for Mashable, and some other WordPress “killer hacks” and “whacks” just for you.
- WordPress + W3 Total Cache + MaxCDN How-To – Racker Hacker – My geek is totally turned on. Combining WordPress with W3 Total Cache and MaxCDN – life doesn’t get much hotter for a geek than combining these. Now, MaxCDN isn’t your only CDN choice, and this technique will help with other services. If you’re serious about performance, this could be very sweet.
- Blog Building: How to Configure W3 Total Cache to Work with WPtouch for WordPress – nimopress – If you are running a mobile based blog, consider this article wise advice for configuring W3 Total Cache with WPTouch, giving you the speed and performance necessary to support mobile access.
- 10 Killer WordPress Hacks – Smashing Magazine – Just in case you missed these, there are ten solid tips of Plugins, Theme function codes, and hacks to enhance your WordPress blog by displaying ads to search engine visitors only, avoid duplicate posts in multiple WordPress loops, automatically get images on post content, using straight not smart quotes, deny comment posting to no referrer requests, and more.
- Shortlink trick – Otto on WordPress – Many are adding auto-shortlinks or tinyurls to their blog posts for easy tweeting and sharing. Otto shares the code to bring this little link shortner to your own WordPress blog posts.
- How to turn off WordPress smart quotes – Lance Bledsoe – While people like Matt Mullenweg thrive on the word processor style curly quotes, a lot of us are not fans. Here’s a bit of Plugin code to remove the smart quotes from your WordPress blog.
- Schedule tasks with WordPress – Emmanuel GEORJON – An updated look at how to schedule tasks with WordPress CRON and other techniques.
- WP Quickie: kses – Otto on WordPress – the kses file in WordPress is the stripper of the various functions. It literally filters out or strips content within a blog post that is not allowed. But what if you want some of that HTML, JavaScript, or whatever code in your posts? You can control what appears through the kses filter. Otto looks at the filtering code and demonstrates how to add and subtract your strippers.
- WordPress Coding: Differences Between PHP 4 and 5 – Emmanuel Georjon – Most in the know had this discussion last year when WordPress announced it was leaving PHP 4x behind, but in case you missed it, Emmanuel gives a good comparison of the two to help you understand why they made the decision.
- Cats Who Code – Top WordPress Hacks of 2009: In case you missed this December post, Cats Who Code featured some of his most popular WordPress code hacks for WordPress Themes from the past year. It includes monetizing your old blog posts, displaying post word counts, browser detection, getting short urls, displaying the first image of a post on the front page, using SSL for security on the WordPress Administration panels, improving the search, rewriting the post author’s name with custom fields, and more.
