WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

Posted on WordPress.org, December 12, 2011 by Matt Mullenweg. Filed under Releases.

The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version [...]

How To Optimize Your WordPress Database

I am looking at a number of WordPress plugins to optimize my databases. I did run across the WordPress method of optimizing a database.

First backup your database.

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php

Click on the Repair Database button to have WordPress internally executes two SQL queries on each WordPress database table: CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE

Click [...]

WordPress Programming Visual Cheat Sheet

Thanks to Antonio Lupetti

WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet is the new document, of the Visual Cheat Sheet family, that contains a practical reference guide to WordPress 2.8. This cheat sheet (5 pages) contains the full reference guide to WP Template Tags with detailed descriptions and sample code.

WordPress-Visual-Cheat-Sheet WordPress 2.8 Visual Cheat Sheet

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Blogging for Mobile Devices

I just added the WordPress Mobile Edition as a result of my recent road trip across the country. Think of this as a must have for your platform in today’s world. Visit http://mobile.nytimes.com using your phone. Incredibly useful and lightning fast, even when compared to the NYTimes iPhone Application which pales by comparison.

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