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I was searching for a way to export data from expressionengine as wordpress format, all i found this article only http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Export_Entries/. I followed the same technique to create a rss xml data feed such that anyone can import data to his wordpress using wp import tool directly as wordpress data fromat.
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1. Cache
Cache, cache and cache. It’s the first step to make your site faster. It’s great news that expressionengine comes with excellent cache features – query cache, tag cache, template cache etc – turn them on.

Query Cache – Query Caching caches the output of your database, saving each query as a text file. When your visitors access your web pages, the cache files are examined to see if the particular queries being requested exist in cached form. If they do, ExpressionEngine uses the cached data instead of querying your database. This provides a significant reduction in your overall database load. The query caching system is completely dynamic.
This feature is found under Admin>Weblog Administration > Global Weblog Preferences.
NOTE: Dynamic weblog query caching will cause weblog queries to not behave as expected when set to: orderby=”random”
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Pardon me, article is huge!
Day by day facebook connect becomes very popular. See facebook connect in action http://mashable.com/2009/01/12/facebook-connect-implementations/ . For the last few weeks I was searching for expressionengine facebook module/plugin/extension but failed, there is nothing. I found a site which is still underconstruction, http://fab-ee.com/ L See how popular this stuff is
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=expressionengine+facebook+connect&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=2cca7b2e99206b9c

I assumed, you know about facebook connect, if you not – please read about this – http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php . So read and configure your facebook application on your facebook, don’t implement your code on your EE application yet –
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_Tutorial1

Video tutorial is here –
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=630563174283

I found an example page here -
http://www.phpfour.com/fbstream/

Finally I became interested to solve this myself and did it. Now facebook user can login and comment a article on site built using expressionengine with their facebook account. Let’s see how I did it.
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Let you have categorized entries in a weblog, you want to show them category-wised, what will you do? You have to put a EE category tag loop first and then you will put entries tag loop inside category loop( Although you can handle this with query module or with raw php too), code will be something as below
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If you have categories for a weblog entries, the url for entry category page is not look so meaningful.
Let you have a weblog named “news” and categories for this weblog is international, sports, market etc.
You may want the urls like –

http://www.example.com/news/

http://www.example.com/news/sports/

http://www.example.com/news/markets/

http://www.example.com/news/international/

http://www.example.com/news/sports/lorem-ipsum

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