For those of you who are getting errors with Simple Tags plugin when upgrading to Wordpress 2.9, there’s a simple hack to make it work: Edit the file simple-tags.php and change the following from this: if ( strpos($wp_version, ‘2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ‘2.8̸ ...

Nginx is another super-fast, web server built for handling massive amounts of web traffic. Compared to Lighttpd, and based on real-world testing, Nginx offers better performance as it doesn’t leak memory as Lighttpd. Recently I had the pleasure of moving all my web servers from Lighttpd to Ng ...

In this blog post, I will show you how to convert a Wordpress blog to run Lighttpd instead of the default Apache Httpd server (on a Plesk server specifically). You can probably apply most of these instructions to any other web servers running on raw Apache but if you are that good at managing web s ...