Best practices for A/B testing?

This is not a straight WordPress solution but I would recommend a/b testing feature found in the Google website optimizer. http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/b/index.html. It works with your analytics account. You just need to create two (or more) pages in WordPress.

Integrating plugins in themes

1) Is integrating plugins a common practice? Not really. Normally you got a theme that offers a base functionality. You then only extend the theme with plugins for special purpose like twitter stuff, event calendars, etc. Imo it makes sense. I’m currently working on an extremly slim theme that has some plugins (OOP approach) that … Read more

How to disable drafts?

If by draft, you mean “autosave”, you can consider using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-feature-disable/ If you want to disable revisions, instead…try this: define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, ‘false’); You can put that in your /wp-config.php file and it should immediately take effect. Any previously saved revisions in your database will need to be purged. You can do it by running … Read more