Since the queries are not related to each other, there is no other way around it. You are going to end with with many queries and slow page (when it is not cached) on a site with many categories. A better approch may be to show latest 50 posts, and display them by category, but … Read more
You could add the Kohana part as a WordPress plugin that filters template_include and returns a local file path to your Kohana controller. Then you all the regular WordPress variables and functions are available in your additional code. If you want to use your own database layer you’d have to do the rewrite part probably … Read more
1) It is easy to create tables in WP. I suggest making a plugin to handle this for you. See the codex for more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins 2) Again, I suggest using WP to handle this for security purposes. As you stated, you would have connection details that could potentially be exploited. 3) I think there … Read more
The primary reason we use enqueue scrips is because WordPress will properly manage all the requests. For example, if two different plugins are using a certain third party library, WordPress will make sure that the script is only loaded once. It will also do a good job of handeling multiple version of the same script. … Read more
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I found the solution… First I thought the problem had something to do with wrapping the hook inside a class.. But after some more testing (sometimes you need to take a step back), it appears the hook vc_before_init has already fired on the init hook with the (default) priority of 10… My current theme (Salient) … Read more