Suppose you install WordPress under /blog/ directory.

Without WP Super Cache plugin

location /blog {
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}

With WP Super Cache plugin installed

location /blog/ {
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
set $supercache_file ”;
set $supercache_uri $request_uri;
if ($request_method = POST) {
set $supercache_uri ”;
}
if ($query_string) {
set $supercache_uri ”;
}
if ($http_cookie ~* “comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_” ) {
set $supercache_uri ”;
}
if ($supercache_uri ~ ^(.+)$) {
set $supercache_file /blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/$http_host/$1index.html;
}
if (-f $document_root$supercache_file) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $supercache_file break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /blog/index.php last;
}
}

Isn’t it pretty easy? Happy blogging, happy high performance.

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WordPress publishes pages dynamically, so the fewer plugins you use, the faster and more reliable WordPress blog you will have. There are many duplicated plugins, but the following plugins are not duplicated of features.

Digg Digg

Official | on WordPress

Digg Digg is used to generate social vote button, which include Digg , Reddit , Dzone , Yahoo Buzz , Twitter , fbShare (facebook) and Polladium  buttons. Submit your blog post to social networking services is the first step to socialize your blog.

Subscriber to Comments

Official | On WordPress

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. This plugin will increase interactives between your blog and your readers.

PollDaddy Polls & Ratings

On WordPress

This plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in. It’s a powerful and useful plugin, by the result of reader’s rating, you will get to know what readers like and focus on the popular topics.

LifeStream

Official | On WordPress

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites. In order to socialize your blog, you have to socialize youself first.

Simple Facebook Connect

Official | On WordPress

Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like. I think the most attractive feature of this plugin is allow us post a comment with you facebook account.

Twitter Tools

Official | On WordPress

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress. This plugins is similiar with Simple Facebook Connect.

Social Traffic Monitor

Official | On WordPress

Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for WordPress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites. It will show you clearly of the SNS effect.

GD Star Rating

Official | On WordPress

GD Star Rating is similiar with PollDaddy rating, but it is much more powerful. GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.

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This plugin is called WP no category base, what you have to do is upload this plugin to your plugin directory (or search this plugin at WordPress dashboard and install this plugin automatically) and then active it. That’s all and the word catetory will removed form your category archive URLs.

I tested this plugin on WordPress 2.71 and it works fine.

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Just several days after WordPress 2.8 Beta 1, now WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 is out, everyone can download it form here.

Hoping to see WordPress 2.8 soon.

This blog is powered by WordPress, and I am very pleased with WordPress, it’s powerful (although not as powerful as MovableType) and very easy to use.

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What we have to do is create a 404 page, we name this page wp-404.php for example, then add the following code in this page.

<?php
$qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$pos = strrpos($qs, ‘://’);
$pos = strpos($qs, ‘/’, $pos + 4);
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($qs, $pos);
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
include(‘index.php’);
?>

the second step is go to your hosting panel and point 404 page to wp-404.php, that’s all. Of course, you have to set permalinks rules at WordPress backend.

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