How to split authors?

When you look at the Template hierarchy, then you’ll notice that there’re actual author archives: Archive Page: author-{$nicename}.php >> author-{$id}.php >> author.php This means, that you can simply add an author.php file to your theme and style it whatever you want. The Loop will give you all posts by this author. If you want to … Read more

How to split the WordPress database?

Coming from a different angle, have you looked into adding indexes to the relevant tables to maximize efficiency? Sometimes the right index can make an amazing difference, even when the files aren’t particularly large. When they are as big as yours the difference could be all you need. You mentioned that you host the server … Read more

Available methods for a/b testing the content

I don’t think it is common enough task for there to be generic recommendations in WordPress area. Taking the more specific part of your question — manipulating template is certainly possible and quite common. Any template (being loaded in native fashion) will have to go through template_include filter Results of single template specifically will go … Read more

with PHP within splits the link

What you are doing isn’t ever going to work the way you want. the_terms() is going to produce a list of complete a tags so you can’t nest or merge it with another one like you are trying to do. And there are no convenient arguments or filters that would allow you to alter that … Read more

Split function “the_tags” in 2 columns

Use get_the_tags instead of the_tags to grab an array of tags, and array_chunk to split it. You will then need to build a loop to display the tags. $tags = get_the_tags(); if (!empty($tags)) { $tags = array_chunk($tags,ceil(count($tags)/2),true); foreach($tags as $v) { echo ‘<ul>’; foreach ($v as $tag) { echo ‘<li><a href=”‘.get_tag_link($tag->term_id).'”>’ . $tag->name . ‘</a></li>’; … Read more

Split Blog Into Two Sections?

My first thought was to create 2 main categories. Exclude one from the wordpress loop on index.php and then only show that category on a different page. The only problem with this method is that the users would have to make sure they are posting in the correct category. However if you used a plugin … Read more