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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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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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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WordPress.com Introduces Import from Posterous

Having several blogs can be a bit hard to maintain, and micro blogging services like Posterous and Tumblr provide a quicker way to post content to the web. However, WordPress has added features which are similar to Posterous in the form of post by email to WordPress.com blogs.
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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/26

Simple Magazine Red
Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme
TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation
Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner
5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes
Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures
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Plugin Developers: What Is Your Wishlist?

Back in October, we told you about the new compatibility box that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we’ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind this idea proposed by shinephp.
I propose to add the field e.g. ‘Problem description’ required for input if visitor click
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