Get the URL of the current page or post with PHP in WordPress

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Saturday, December 10th, 2011

This ia a very quick note on the right way to get the URL of the current page or post with PHP in your WordPress template:

<?php echo "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>

This will work for both posts and pages and outside the loop. I am using this for things like social media sharing buttons for example. Use it anywhere in your WordPress template to get the URL. Use the_permalink() only for posts and within the loop!

Hope this helps someone else wondering why the_permalink() is displaying abnormally when used outside the loop and for pages

Tags: template, the_permalink, Wordpress
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Benchmark Nginx and Varnish for a WordPress Site

Monday, November 7th, 2011

This is a post about benchmarking nginx and varnish in my little series of getting the most performance for your buck, running nginx with varnish, apc and memcache for a WordPress website on a small VPS with 128MB RAM.

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Tags: Benchmarking, Little Series, Nginx, Varnish, VPS, W3 Cache, Wordpress
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Install Nginx with APC, Varnish, WordPress and W3 Cache on a 128MB VPS

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Following on from me trying to fit a WordPress install on a 128MB VPS while not sacrificing performance; I give you my rather comprehensive tutorial on how to install nginx with apc (php opt-code cache), varnish (caching proxy), wordpress and w3 cache.

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Tags: APC, Little Series, Ningx, Varnish, VPS, W3 Cache, Wordpress
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Testing Nginx with APC, Varnish, WordPress and W3 Cache on a 128MB VPS

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Finally got a bit of time (OK, I have forced myself to take some time) to get my VPS WordPress dream config sorted out and wrap it up in a handy bash script so that I can roll it out across my clients websites easily.

After following various tutorials and picking certain peoples brains, I think I finally have arrived at the bees knees as they say (or do they?)!

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Tags: APC, Cloudflare, Debian, FPM, KVM, Little Series, PHP5, Varnish, VPS, Wordpress, XEN
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New and Improved WordPress 2.0.1

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

I’ve finally gotten around to updating this weblog to WordPress 2.0.1 and am happy to report that everything is working Also new is the excellent AJAX-ed Shoutbox by Andrew Sutherland (Wordspew), and CaptCha! is finally working. Meaning: You can now post comments again!!!

Although 2.0.1 was hailed as a major improvement, I fail to see it. But then again I don’t hack around the backend much, so I just take the coders word for it and enjoy a stable WordPress Blog. Most of the old plug-ins are working fine though I updated most now anyway to warrant the “new and improved” headline.

All in all I still cannot fault WordPress as my blog engine of choice and am looking forward to the new AJAX-ed / Web 2.0 improvements currently planned. OK, it’s buzzword hype but some features and functions like the shoutbox or usability aiding layout improvements make punters happy. I’m playing around with a lot of the cool new toys thesedays to help redesign our companies web applications.

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Tags: Wordpress
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