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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers. This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site. Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – setting up object cache


The object cache system uses just one file, which means that it is simple to set up:

  1. Download the file from .

  2. Rename the file to object-cache.php and upload it to your /wp-content folder. Note that this is not a plugin, so it doesn't need to go in the plugins folder.

  3. The cache should start working immediately. View a post on your site and then check /wp-content/cache.

  4. If there's nothing in that folder, check the file permissions. Setting them to 755 via your FTP client (or using chmod if you prefer to use the shell) should be sufficient for most server setups.

  5. Once files start appearing in the /wp-content/cache folder, you can be confident the cache is working.

What just happened?

Donncha's object cache isn't exactly flashy, but it gets the job done. The cache is still experimental, but in the testing I've done, I have found that it works well. Donncha offers some more information about the cache on his site

http://ocaoimh.ie/looking-at-a-wpmu-object...