PUBLIC MARKS from mozkart with tags wordpress & php

Put this before the loop in archive.php to have posts in the archive for category '26' sorted by custom field 'date'. Assign sortable values like '090501' or '2009-05-01' to those fields when editing posts and your Upcoming Events will be sorted by the future date at which they will take place.

How to use WordPress as a CMS is a popular question. Especially when you want to quickly throw up what is sometimes called “The Brochure Site”. Yep, that hoary throwback to Web 1.0, the static site. You’re going to template the site in PHP anyway, right? Why not just use WordPress and give your client the option of updating their content, while a million or so developers are working behind the scenes to make sure the code powering your site is the best it can be? Not a tough choice. Besides, no one said it had to be completely static, did they? Here’s the rundown on a few plugins, the bare minimum you’ll need, that’ll turn a simple static site into a blazing fast dynamic one, with easily managed content, that you’ll love to use.

# WordPress 2.7.1 ready: Design and as well as technical # Position of meta data at top of the source code # Clean and user friendly interface # No changes in your .htaccess required # Safety conscious programming # Avoid duplicate content # Absolutely no additional database queries # Very fast execution (∼0.000265 seconds with PHP 5.1.2, 4 GB RAM, Dual-Core) # No need to adjust any templates # Export and import of settings # Fully documented # Clean up after uninstall the plugin # Use of manually entered metadata from "All in One SEO Pack" # Fully support of Language Switcher Plugin # Language support for english and german # Support of HTML 5

I’ve used Wordpress for two years, first as a conventional front-page blog, then as a simple CMS, then both. As Wordpress has evolved, the development team has done an excellent job providing documentation on how to bend and stretch the software’s functionality without requiring true PHP coding skills or unnecessary plug-ins. Ever

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.