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This blog is aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress. We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.
How-to: Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress
From Harvard Law’s Dan Collis-Puro, a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress:
We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation [...]
WordPress as a CMS Case Study: WNET.org
Back in July we posted about the remarkable project that WNET (PBS of NYC) put together with Tierra to launch 50 sites in ten months using one CMS, WordPress.
Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge who headed up that project, were kind enough to present a case study of how it was all done, at the recent [...]
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Elance, a marketplace “where businesses connect with independent professionals to get work done”, has published their latest Elance Online Work Index. In this index they rate which skills are most in demand in their marketplace based on 100,000 new jobs posted on Elance over recent months:
The #1 in demand skill is PHP, followed in the #2 slot by MySQL. The top publishing platform, with an overall ranking of #13, is WordPress, up 2 spots from #15 since the last index. Joomla comes in at #29, previously 18th overall, and the next publishing platform listed is Drupal at #75, previously 46th in the last index.
Since WordPress is PHP/MySQL, WordPress professionals out there are in a great position with the most in demand skills.
You may recall back in January oDesk posted about similar trends in their marketplace as well.
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Growth in WordPress jobs on oDesk have only accelerated since we listed it as our fastest growing skill back in January 2009. Back then, 350 WordPress jobs were being posted per month. Today, the number has more than doubled.
We attribute this growth to the increase in social media marketing. As companies tighten their marketing budgets in this recession, corporate blogs are a great way to get word out. Good wordpress developers can help companies infuse their corporate blogs with their own style, branding, and look-and-feel. The ongoing maintenance of these blogs can then be taken over by well managed writers.
Amit Bakshi
Product Marketing Manager, oDesk
@Amit, judging by this graph you are certainly right — impressive: http://www.odesk.com/trends/WordPress