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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Optimizing your blog performances with WP Super Cache


Would you like to be (or already are) featured on some high-traffic web sites, such as Digg, delicious.com, or StumbleUpon? If the answer is yes, you have to make sure that your blog can survive a 5000/10000 new visitor's rush.

For example, I often click on featured links on Digg. Almost once daily, I'm redirected to a blog that takes forever to load or, even worse, doesn't respond at all. This wouldn't happen in the blog if WP Super Cache is used.

Getting ready

WP Super Cache can be downloaded for free on http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/. As usual, follow the procedure about installing a plugin on page 1 to install your copy of WP Database Backup.

Once done, you'll find a WP Super Cache under the Settings tab of your WordPress dashboard.

How to do it...

As the WP Super Cache plugin is a complex piece of code which allows you to do lots of different operations, let's have a step by step look at how to achieve specific tasks:

  1. Turning the cache...