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Cyberciti: "Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales.

You can speed up your wordpress blog by using a CDN to display content to users faster and more efficiently."

One of the things I’m always looking for is ways to improve performance with the applications I write. While a few applications are write-heavy, most are read-heavy: that is, reading the database is the predominant behavior (for example, this Wordpress blog reads the database far more often than it writes to the database).

Additionally, Zend [...]

On the CatsWhoCode.com blog there's a new post looking at a few cool things (ten, to be precise) you can do with the cURL extension in PHP.

New to cURL?

If yes, check out the following articles to learn the purposes and basics of cURL/libcurl. [...] Please note that some of the techniques shown here can be used for "blackhat" methods.

The goal of this article is only educationnal, please do not use any of the snippets below for illegal stuff.

Their ten cool things incldue:

On the Pureform WordPress blog is a quick tutorial on using memcache and MySQL to work with PHP's session handler to create a Write Through Cache.

Justin had written up a previous article with a few quick ways to secure your WordPress blog and he's come back with a few more helpful hints on how to keep you and your blog safe.

Justin has a few suggestions - six of them - to help you improve the security of your WordPress blog.

Here's the list:

• WP Security Scan
• Change all accounts that have known usernames (example: admin).
• Remove Wordpress Version
• adminSSL
• askApache Password protect
• Wordpress firewall

For each of the items that are plugins, links are provided for direct download and installation instructions.