Scaling WordPress Part 1: Using MySQL Replication and HyperDB

Everyone loves to get loads of traffic to their websites, however, websites get timed out or respond very slowly when many users try to access it at the same time. WordPress does a pretty good job of handling lots of users at once, however it in itself cannot help you manage all the traffic, and
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/11

New Plugins
WP-ZoomImage With CopyProtect
You can pop up an image or thumbnail by just clicking on it and it will disappear when you click it again
Titled Comments
Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments.
Scroll to Top Plugin
Integrate a jQuerry scroll to top control
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New Tag Results, from Technorati and Ingboo

Technorati and Ingboo have partnered together to provide an all new kind of subscription experience for Technorati content, including tagged posts. Look for a blue Ingboo icon for a full range of subscription options.
Feeds are also available for:
Hottest Blogosphere Posts
Latest Original Articles from Technorati
The Technorati Blog
We also have channel feeds, writer feeds, and editorial tag [...]

Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus
There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]

Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop

WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop. In addition to that, it will also allow you to edit, spam or delete the comments.
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BuddyPress for One (and All!)

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13

Sky Light
A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background
Magazine theme
The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page.
Simple Things
Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography
Chirp
Chirp
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Where Is The Line Drawn?

Cory Miller who is one of the guys behind iThemes.com has published a long but excellent piece regarding his thoughts on why there needs to be a commercial WordPress plugin market. Honestly, I think Cory’s post has been the best on the subject and I don’t disagree with much of what he said. In terms
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/09

New Plugins
Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator
Spam is website publishers #1 concern, we wanna share our and our visitors’ emails to those who should have access to them, but don’t want spam harvesters stealing them and sending garbage to us. A lot of techniques had been developed to hide our emails from these delinquents, while having
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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/07

Neoclassical
Two column revamped version of the Neoclassical theme with support for automatic thumbnail generation and 125×125 ads
ProSmooth Series
A professionally designed classy and clean design with a smooth and elegant accented color scheme. Designed to be light weight and fast loading, featuring a fixed width centered layout that’s compatible with the latest wordpress and widget ready.
Unfocus
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