Jeff StielerAugust 16th, 2010
WordPress is great because it makes it extremely easy for people to tell their story. A big part of what we do on the Voce Platforms Team is enable clients use WordPress to tell their stories their way. This more often than not results in a lot of custom development, but ultimately frees our clients [...]
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Chris ScottAugust 12th, 2010
As mentioned a few weeks ago, two of Voce’s Platforms Services team, Sean O’Shaugnessy and I put on a presentation on WordPress caching at WordCamp Boulder, a talk that’s now online via WordPress.tv if you weren’t able to attend but want to hear what we had to say. Our talk on improving WordPress performance through [...]
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Nik WiletsAugust 6th, 2010
I made the switch to WordPress from Drupal seven months ago and I don’t ever think I’ll go back. WordPress’ speed of development, template tags and elegant admin user interface would be to hard to give up. But as I have worked more with WordPress I’ve found there are some features from Drupal that would [...]
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Chris ScottJuly 21st, 2010
Sean and I were pleased to have the opportunity to give a talk on WordPress caching at WordCamp Boulder last weekend. I gave an intro to the two types of caching in WordPress along with tips for developers and Sean showed the results of caching through benchmarking a test installation of one of our client’s [...]
Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)July 13th, 2010
Once theSphinx server is setup, we can begin with WordPress integration. The first thing we need to do capture the override the query_vars in WP_Query before it runs it’s own search. We’ll do this by running an action on ‘parse_query’ with the code below. function my_parse_query(&$wp_query) { if($wp_query->is_search && class_exists(’SphinxClient’)) { $results [...]
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Sean O'ShaughnessyJuly 12th, 2010
Sphinx is a powerful open source SQL full-text search engine. It runs as a single process in the background, and can be connected to over a specified IP and port. It supports weighted ranking of search results, different search matching modes (all words in the query, any words in the query, exact phrase), and filtering [...]
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Pete SchiebelJuly 6th, 2010
For all of the advancements in web design and development, one problem has remained: the inability to easily incorporate real fonts into websites. It’s frustrating for designers because they want to make a visually inspiring site and don’t want to be shackled by the ‘web-friendly’ fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier, Comic [...]
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Nick GernertJuly 1st, 2010
WordCamp Boulder is coming upon July 10. We’ll be there not only attending the sessions, but Chris and Sean will be giving a talk on caching with WordPress. Here’s a brief description of the session: As a WordPress site owner you want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able [...]
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Nick GernertJune 23rd, 2010
So, it’s no secret that the Sony PlayStation Blog is one of our banner WordPress projects here. They’re great partners and have embraced the platform allowing us to do things like contribute plugins developed for the site back to the WordPress developer community. I’m excited to give a few details about one of our newest [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)June 17th, 2010
Sometimes when upgrading to a new version of WordPress (WordPress 3.0 is out today by the way) it can cause your site to break. This is usually caused by one or more plugins being incompatible with the new version. To fix it, follow these simple steps: Connect to the server via ftp or ssh Rename [...]
Beverly had several years of experience in communications before joining Voce in 2008. At Voce, she provides tactical support as well as a creative perspective for both traditional high-technology accounts and social media programs.
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