Besides the very obvious (and common) joke in the title, this is a set of slides giving you an overview of what nginx can do for you and why you should be considering it over your current web server software. If you have any questions, please leave a comment. This talk was delivered at BarCamp Tampa Bay in September 26, 2009.
This cartoon pretty much sums it up for me. I live to create and would do that happily without monetary compensation. I create and my primary medium is the web. In other words I code to live, not the other way round. This is one of the reasons why 90% of my tools are open source.
If I had admin access to all the servers in the world, I’d spend my time improving the web and fixing code. Writing code is my passion. Of course the reality of being a geek for hire means that I have to also manage expectations.
If you’re using the Shared Users Table trick to create an ad-hoc blog network, then you need to be using WP-Orphange. When you set the constants CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE in your wp-config.php file, your users can log into any blog that defines the same Users table. However, if the blog isn’t the one they registered on they won’t be assigned any Roles or Capabilities on the other blogs, and they will be shown an error. I call these users ‘orphans.
WP-Orphanage is a WordPress plugin that automatically adopts all of your orphans automatically, and will set a Role for them on the blog they are trying to log into. You have control over which Role they are set to in wp-admin.
The v1.1 update fixes a bug introduced in the option screen in v1.0.1 and is recommended for all users of this plugin.
Many thanks to Vince from Alphak.net – Born to Be Wired for reporting this error and helping me debug the solution.
How Not To Build a Plugin by Will Norris
Spotted on WordPress TV. Lots of examples of how to make your plugin less flexible, less secure, and more prone to misbehaving.
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If you’ve implemented the Shared User Table trick in WordPress by defining CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE in your wp-config file, then you’ve probably realized there is a serious draw back to this approach when building a blog network: Users who sign up on one blog do not get any privileges on any of the other blogs in your network. This is by design, but you don’t have to leave it at that.
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