How does one go about locking down transient API requests for multiple threading? Has anything done some benchmarking, just how much can the transient API handle for multiple concurrent requests? Under normal circumstances Transients API is essentially thin wrapper on top of Options API. The difference is that (unlike plain options) transients might make use … Read more
Simply go to Settings > Discussion > Other comment settings > then look for the pull-down menu that will let you reverse the order. As per this video: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-comments-first.webm
http://jsfiddle.net/K3gr7/4/ I used an ordered list to markup the comments. You probably need to tweak it to your own setup, and cache some variables for optimization, but the functionality is in there. $(document).ready(function() { // Toggle all $(‘#toggle-all’).click(function() { var $subcomments = $(‘#comments’).find(‘> li > ol’); if ($subcomments.filter(‘:hidden’).length) { $subcomments.slideDown(); } else { $subcomments.slideUp(); } … Read more
This is indeed the default behavior of WordPress. The comments always stay on the same comment page, so if you show the last comment page first, that last comment page will not always have the “full” number of comments. The advantage of keeping a comment always on the same comment page is that the URL … Read more
// inside your callback function: static $ancestors = null; $parent = (int) $comment->comment_parent; // Modify INITIAL VALUE here: $init_val = (int) 1; $is_child = false; if ( $parent > (int) 0 ) { $is_child = true; $ancestors[] = $parent; $child_counter = count( $ancestors ) + $init_val; } /* * Only needed in case you want … Read more
Had this problem on a site where commenter’s would post comments to the wrong posts and comment threads, had to move thousands of comments from one post to more appropriate posts on the site. I used this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/move-wordpress-comments/ for fixing threading. With the plugin you have the option of turning the child comments into … Read more
Is your plugin intended for use by others, or is it only going to be used on servers you control? If the latter, then there might be a few ways to achieve what you want. For instance, the Sync extension. With that, I think you could use a mutex or semaphore to set a flag, … Read more
Since there are so many upvotes to the question, although the issues of multithreading are just too broad for a format of an answer, I will try to explain why you should not use wordpress API in a multithreaded way…. TL;DR – PHP is not assumed to be multithreading ready, the problem is not PHP … Read more