CowPimp (who is taking donations for a digicam BTW, hint hint) has come up with a sweet way to cache your WordPress pages. I am going to try it out on this blog. From his post This is a plugin for WordPress that caches pages. To use it, you simply install the plugin and turn it on. There is no need to edit your templates. Why would you want to do this? This reduces the load on the PHP interpreter and on the mysql database. It also allows the site to be fully functional even if the mysql database is down. Download the cache plugin here: http://www.cowpimp.com/archives/2004/06/08/staticize-plugin-for-wordpress/

Anne van Kesteren gave me some code to make intelligent searches inside WordPress and I wrapped it up in a nice install tutorial. Some of the features of this hack includes -text based “fuzzy” searches within WordPress -a nice Google like interface which is very customizeable -search results with decreasing relevance to search topic -trap for words which are less than four letters long, the search then gets routed through the default WP search -“Next results” button which shows the next 10 (or less) results in relevance -very simple installation with no effect on future upgrades Test install is on this blog. Simply search for something from the form on the right. Please post suggestions/bugs. Download the zip file here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/search.zip

This plugin adds a “Delete comments as spam” button to the mass editing of comments page. When used to delete unwanted comments, the email address, url, and IP address of that comment will be added to your spam words list. Future comments matching any of those items will automatically be moderated. You can download the .zip file or view the source. Leave any bug reports as comments to this post.