BWPM Nov2011: Caching, Scaling, and WP.com VIP [...

Caching, Scaling, and What I've Learned Programming for WordPress.com VIP by Erick Hitter WordPress provides two great caching frameworks in its transient and object caching APIs. Used internally and available to developers, object caching can introduce many performance enhancements simply by activating a plugin such as Batcache or W3 Total Cache. But what about adding extra caching in a custom theme? Or building upon existing internal caching? Working on high-traffic sites both on the WordPre...

BWPM Nov2011: WordPress, HTML5 Adoption, and Int...

#1. WordPress, HTML5 Adoption, and Internet Explorer 9 & 10 by Chris Bowen No doubt you've been hearing quite a bit about HTML5. There are many new features to help improve user experiences, but how do you use them today while still supporting the spectrum of browsers, old and new, in use today? We'll focus on practical strategies, libraries, polyfills, shims, etc. for WordPress designers and developers to adopt HTML5 today. We'll also take a look at how Internet Explorer supports HTML5 (and r...

Ten Must do Steps to Convert to Wordpress

Presented by Alan Bergstein (An update of his session presented at WordCamp Boston 2011): http://2011.boston.wordcamp.org/2011/07/08/ten-must-do-steps-in-converting-to-wordpress/ It happens all the time. You’ve got a site that was brilliant four years ago, and the site developer has retired to a beachfront Internet cafe in the Cayman Islands, and you forgot or just never really knew how to use Dreamweaver. So how do you take that dusty old site and do more than just port it over to a WP platfo...

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