Making WordPress Pay
or “How I turned a $10/m blog into a $200/m blog in 3 hours”
Sounds great huh? First a little history though. One of my other sites is a niche blog I’ve run for about 18 months for fun. I have a pretty healthy stream of between 10 and 20 new posts per month, reasonable traffic, [...]
quicktips: Hack WordPress to handle mixed Arabic / English posting
Posting in a multi-lingual blog is hard enough if you are swapping between French and English, but swapping from Arabic to English also involves swapping the order in which the characters appear on screen.
This post gives a neat solution to this problem which can probably be hacked to handle a number of other cases where [...]
Plugin building - it’s easy
Another simple link for a Sunday, how to write your own Plugin.
If you break out in a cold sweat on mention of terms like ‘the loop’ and ‘function’ you might want to just skip this post and look at some nice themes.
Plugin creation really is simpler than you think, and there are a host of [...]
Cache defence
One of the criticisms WordPress is often on the receiving end of is that it performs poorly under load. By load we mean a Digging. And it’s true - most WordPress sites will collapse pretty quickly under pressure of a lot of concurrent traffic.
I think 90% of the problem is in the repeat visits to [...]
Wordpress plugin template
The best way to learn is often to simply take a starting point and play. For me it’s always a finished item I respect, which I pull to pieces, replace the pieces, and then build up again. But for many a bare template is the prefered starting point.
Despite having a ’so hideous it’s somehow cool’ [...]
