Tag Archives: xdebug

Profiling PHP Code in WordPress

I was honored to give a talk at the second WordCamp Russia event. Like last year, I decided to speak about a general development topic and how it can be applied to WordPress. This time my talk was on profiling.

Here’s a video. English subtitles are available by selecting “Subtitles” in the player.

And here’s wptop on GitHub, an XHProf-based WordPress plugin that gives you an overview of your WordPress website performance. Feel free to give it a spin and let me know what you think.



PHP 5.4 – A Week In

It’s been a week since I switched over to PHP 5.4 and here’s what I can say, even though I haven’t had much time to use the new features I was looking forward to.

PHP 5.4

First of all, you won’t find PHP in your distribution repositories, it’s too early. Grab the source and compile.

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