Session Speaker - Mark Jaquith
Rejoining us again from Brandon, Florida is Mark Jaquith of MarkJaquith.com where he knows WordPress backwards and forwards (not to mention he's a flickrer, twitterer, and friendfeeder).
Mark will be presenting the seminar "Advanced WordPress Coding" in the Technical/How To Track - Advanced track.
Scaling: An overview of the best ways to scale WordPress to withstand any Digg onslaught. We’ll talk about WP-Super-Cache, Batcache and PHP opcode caches. We’ll identify common performance bottlenecks. For more detailed and generally applicable information, you’ll want to stick around for Alex Rudloff’s session on scaling!Upgrades: Still using FTP to upgrade your WordPress blog? FTP is for your grandmother. We’ll talk about using Subversion to make upgrades happen in a flash.
Advanced URLs: Want a feed of all posts by guest authors on your blog that are in the “Florida” category and also mention “Disney” ? Pfft, that’s nothing. Learn how to use WordPress URL tricks to offer extremely customized feeds to your readers.
Multiple loops: Let’s use the tricks you learned above to create a secondary loop in your theme, without disrupting the main posts loop.
You can view all of the session details to date at blogorlando.com/sessions.
Comments
Very much looking forward to this session. After 5 years of using Typepad, I took the wordpress switch and am looking for new skills, especially those that make upgrading, RSS, and comment management easier.
Any chance you'll cover BBpress for two minutes?
Posted by: John from TheDisneyBlog.com | September 22, 2008 09:46 AM
John, I don't have a huge amount of experience with BBpress, but I can say that it is the best choice of a forum if you already have a WordPress blog with open registration, because of the ease of sharing the user tables. It's not as full-featured as other BB software packages, but if you just want a simple forum that integrates with your existing WordPress install, it is the obvious choice.
With regards to comment management, I can certainly address that. There are some changes in the upcoming (November) 2.7 version that'll help.
Posted by: Mark Jaquith | September 22, 2008 01:59 PM