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-wordpress-redis-backend
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+## Overview
 
-A WordPress object cache that uses Redis for storage.
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+A WordPress object cache backend that implements all available methods using Redis and the Predis library for PHP.
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+## Authors 
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+* Eric Mann
+
+## Installation
+1. Install and configure Redis. There is a good tutorial (here)[http://www.saltwebsites.com/2012/install-redis-245-service-centos-6].
+2. Install Predis (included in this repository as a submodule) in the `/wp-content/predis` directory, since that's where the object cache expects it to reside.
+3. Add object-cache.php to the wp-content directory. It is a drop-in file, not a plugin, so it belongs in the wp-content directory, not the plugins directory.
+4. By default, the script will connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379.
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