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Ladies and Gents I’m currently testing the (built-in) Wordpress cache to see if it will behave in a predictable manner.

As such, I’d appreciate any visits people could make, to help flesh out some logs, statistics and give me some solid metrics to work with. I have a baseline on pre-cache performance and a bit of extra traffic would help isolate if there are any performance benefits.

Should you note that things are horribly broken as a result, please do drop me a quick note in the comments for this post. Lovely.

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After quite some experimentation, much of it fruitless, that has resulted in a mass tug-of-war with Wordpress and it’s infernal re-write rules, the structure of the ‘foo has changed. This has primarily been driven by a fundamental flaw in Wordpress that will likely never be addressed, as it’s simply not considered a “problem” to begin with..

Whilst I am not at all pleased with the final result, it’s the closest I can come to a workable solution, that scales well and will be as ‘fluff’ free as I can make it.

It means I have to go back to using pages for semi-static content, rather than using a fluid rewrite rule set that blurs the lines to make pages and posts interchangeable.

If you happened to notice odd on-off-on-off formatting changes to the foo’s remaindered links, you weren’t actually seeing things.

You see, there’s yet another safety feature in wordpress 2.1. That being the ubiquitous add_filter, via the kses.php sitting in wp-includes. Allow me a moment to set-the-scene, as it were, so you have at least some reference point:

I have a handy (and somewhat hacked) php script that pulls in del.icio.us links and injects them as entries. It parses the RSS feed, generates a snazzy (and pre-formatted) array and injects each bookmark as an entry. I even parse in the associated del.icio.us tags to map as entry tags.

And it all works remarkably well — submit a bookmark to del.icio.us and the script takes care of the rest. Until one uses curl, or wget.