Mark Maunder benchmarked several performance tuning measures with a WordPress installation on a VPS server to show which are most effective. The biggest improvements were from installing PHP-APC, setting up Nginx to proxy concurrent connections for Apache, and using MySQL’s query cache.
“In the closed-source world, Version 1.0 means ‘Don’t touch this if you’re prudent.’; in the open-source world it reads something more like ‘The developers are willing to bet their reputations on this.’ ”
– Eric Raymond, How Fine a Gift?
Sam Mingolelli has posted some useful solutions to common problems when running yum update inside an OpenVZ VE.
I wrote a new WordPress plugin for a side project and just released it into the repository. It creates a custom post type for markers and then inserts them into an embedded Google Map, using the post’s featured image as the map icon.
Note: all support requests should be posted to the support forums.
This is the error you’ll get if you try to install WordPress 3.2 on a PHP4 server:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /path/to/your/directory/wp-includes/load.php on line 566
It’s because the clone keyword doesn’t exist in PHP4.