We’ve written a few times about some cacheing plugins for WordPress and I’ve learned a lot over the last year about optimizing and performancing our systems and setups. I’ve teetered back and forth between these two cacheing plugins for WordPress: WP Super Cache W3 Total Cache We’ve been using the latter for a while now [...]

At this point I’ve upgraded all of our significant properties to the new WordPress 3.0 release and we’ve had only one “bump” so far with a caching plugin that needed to be updated as well. But not a single drop of sweat has been shed as I’ve been able to upgrade all of them without [...]

In the previous article, we used XAMPP to install Apache, MySQL, and PHP in order to setup a home development environment. Since many in the 8BIT Community are big fans of WordPress, we’re going to take a look at how we can go about set it up on for local development. This ultimately helps facilitate [...]

The 8BIT Network runs a combination of it’s properties through the Amazon S3 Service, which has (so far) been fantastic. It’s provided a better experience for our users and readers as well as provided some significant backup systems just in case we experience anything catastrophic. Peace of mind is worth a few pennies, right?

There are a number of amazing WordPress plugins available that’ll take a standard little bloggy-blog into a Full CMS; I’ve seen things that have made my head spin! And they keep getting better and better and better. A recent plugin that has done that for me is one that transforms WordPress into a simple and [...]