[wp-hackers] Useful caching

[Jamie Holly]

>The most logical thing to put in core would be *if it's writeable,
>cache the feed directly to /feed/index.xml*, so it can be served up
>without invoking PHP at all.
>
>I watched Typo abandon this approach on a wider scale after investing
>fairly heavily in a lot of JavaScript to make the pages not look quite
>so static. Caching actual HTML pages this way is something each user
>has to decide for themselves... but doing with the main feed makes a
>lot of sense.

>Mike

This is something I actually ended up doing on one blog I maintain (with
over 750,000 feed reads a day LOL). I didn't do it through WP, but instead
used a shell script to read the feed and save the contents to the
appropriate directories as files.



Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net