Sean O'ShaughnessySeptember 22nd, 2010
In part III of this series, I’m going to cover a few more topics including Delta Indexing, Index Merging, and Distributed Indexes. If you used part I to get Sphinx up and running, and part II to get it integrated with WordPress, we’ll continue from there. Delta Indexing Using the sphinx.conf from part I, we’re [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)September 20th, 2010
Back while helping work on WordPress 3.0 and all the changes that were involved in adding better support for custom post types, I saw a need for improving the registration of meta-boxes. Specifically, making it so custom meta handlers could be supportable like the built in ones such as the editor, excerpt, and thumbnail meta-boxes. [...]
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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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