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WordPress Meetup Tokyo -- WordPress Server Optimization

I recently gave a quick talk about how I use Nginx, HHVM, MariaDB with WordPress on this blog at the March WordPress Meetup in Tokyo. Here are the slides: I’ve published a Vagrant template for the setup detailed in the slides.

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Vagrant, WordPress, and Theme Development

I’ve been playing around with Vagrant recently. It really is a great tool for setting up development environments quickly and cleanly - no more local MySQL databases with 100 separate databases! There are a few ways to solve this problem that many WordPress developers have: Use WordPress Multisite mode. Regularly clean your databases up and delete old ones. Use a common WordPress install, switching themes. Use Vagrant. I’m going to be talking about the last option, Vagrant, in this blog post.

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