Here is a little reminder with a great description and decomposition of how a page request is translated to a MySQL query. Courtesy of ozh, of course. A must-read!

WordPress Query Overview: How a Page Request Is Translated To a MySQL Query – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org.

• WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner! « Weblog Tools Collection
  The winner of the Grand Prize of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 is:
  Section Widget by Godfrey Chan!

Elegant Themes also updated a part of its themes, with a new options panel, giving the occasion to 2 lucky Wprecipes readers to win club memberships:

• ePanel Released: Batch 1- Elegant Themes Blog
  The now well known Elegant themes releases a new option panel for a part of its themes: ePanel (that’s its name) has been integrated into the following themes: eNews, Bold, ePhoto, eBusiness, CherryTruffle and PureType. The panel itself is probably the most advances theme options panel I have seen for a WordPress theme: the design, the SEO options, the ad settings, … You can do everything from that panel!

• WpRecipes & ElegantThemes contest: Win Premium WP Themes!
  Nick of ElegantThemes.com just released a killer option page for all his themes. To celebrate this great achievement, Nick decided to offer an ElegantThemes subscription to two of WPrecipes readers.

Two great tutorials were also published today:

• Filter Duplicate Posts in the Loop – Loop No1 , Loop, This, Therefore, WordPress – WP Engineer
  How to make sure that the content presented, which is output in a loop, does not show up again in a second loop.
• Easy Shortcode Permalinks | Digging into WordPress
  When you are building a theme, and the circumstance comes up where you need to create a link to a specific page hard-baked right into the theme, there is a function you should be using.

And I wanted to present you with a new WordPress cache plugin:

• WordPress › W3 Total Cache « WordPress Plugins
  After Wp Super Cache, another great cache plugin:
  W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.