My Collection is my new website that is made as a demo for several of my plugins and one theme, and in the same time for tracking my collection of music, videos and books I got from Amazon. Here are some more details about the website and plugins used.
Generally speaking WordPress is fast. And this is the case even with large websites with tens of thousands of posts. Mostly, speed depends on the theme and than on the plugins. But in many cases the slowest part is the WordPress core. Here is how to speed it up.
Data retrieved by GD aZon FUSION plugin is got through Amazon Product API using CloudFusion library. Amazon has limited what types of data you can request and what kind of response you can get. Amazon don’t allow for all data they actually have to be used through API.
By default, WordPress allows some limited post filtering options using taxonomies. If you have many taxonomies and you need to filter posts taking into account several taxonomies, and to filter by more than one term, well, there is no direct way to that with WP only.
If you are plugin developer, it’s very important to give as much info about the plugin updates as you can before the blog admins update the plugin to a new version. Also, some of the plugin control panels go into different menus, and it’s a good idea to have direct links on the plugins panel also.
When you create a complex form that will be used on page or anywhere in WordPress, there are some restrictions that you will not found documented, and will cause you a lot of problems if you are not aware of them and how to solve them.
One of the goals I set for xScape themes is to eventually add support for BuddyPress. But making BuddyPress theme from scratch is not that easy as you might expected, and no wonder that there are only handful of quality BuddyPress themes available.
Dev4Press with premium plugins and themes is now almost 6 months active, and with number of users growing, I thought it was a good idea to allow to all of you to express what you think about our products, services, support or anything else on Dev4Press or our other websites.
Every few months, about the time new WordPress is to be released, system requirements are again on the line and despite all discussions and facts presented by users, WordPress still maintains (the illusion) of support for PHP4, when that is far from the truth.
