Depends on your plugin. I prefer to use plugins with the minimal functionality that meets my needs. Less configuration options, less documentation to read, and hopefully less bugs. You also need to think on the upgrade process. If you make a change in a big plugin I should look into upgrading it even if the … Read more
This is a typical situation for using a class to manage a data structure. You got a complex data structure and you need some functions to retrieve and modify the data structure. This is easy made with a class. The class get the data structure from the database and have some methods to get parts … Read more
TL;DR Template: Performance not so much, semantics however, use hierarchy! TL;DR Query String: Use provided hooks, never edit directly. The Template File Apart from performance, first look at semantics. If you direct your browser to a taxonomy archive, WordPress will look for the following files (straight from the Codex): taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php – If the taxonomy were … Read more
Your code is setting the slug of the post to your custom meta string. That work is done on the admin side and so shouldn’t effect your viewers much. WordPress will use that slug more or less directly to construct an url and/or load a page. What you have done is not different from hand-writing … Read more
IMO it is recommended to ignore 50% of the google speedtest recommendations, this is one of them Resources with a “?” in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers. Remove the query string and encode the parameters into the URL for the following resources… Maybe it was true in 2005 but now … Read more
That query is run in the get_comment_count() function in core. The wp_count_comments() function runs a similar query, but it caches the resulting data using the wp_cache system (so it won’t run that code more than once per request). get_comment_count() does not use the cache. Thing is, this seems to me to be a perfectly a … Read more
It is true that browsers choke on scripts, so generally it is best to put scripts in the footer to prevent the whole page being delayed. So putting jquery in the footer also makes sense. However, WordPress websites usually have plugins that may also include jquery scripts, which they may load in the header without … Read more
The obvious first step would be to use get_col instead of get_result. You will get an array returned straightaway so you could skip your foreach and go straight to: $args = array( ‘author__in’ => $following_users_ids, ‘posts_per_page’ => 12, ‘paged’ => $paged, ); Behind the scenes, get_col does much what you are doing but you are … Read more
Probably post_status but this answer is probably irrelevant in your case. You have your own application with its own usage pattern of the DB therefor the assumptions used when designing wordpress DB for use by core might not fit you. Maybe you will need to add another index to the posts table, maybe create optimized … Read more
It could be anything: A slow and un-optimized MySQL server A theme not suited for big databases A faulty plugin combination … You can make sure that it’s not a plugin or theme issue by disabling all plugins and using a built in theme (I like Twenty Twelve). What else you can do to find … Read more