I’m the author of that plugin. I think you should post such question on WP.org’s support forum or on my website so I can get to you faster. If not for the pingback from this site I wouldn’t know you are asking this :). About your issue, how did you enqueue that file? How does … Read more
Any suggestions on how to make this function more efficient or more generally useful?
1 GB on virtual private server (VPS) should be enough, if you don’t have a high traffic. WP Cache could cause problems when number of posts is more than 30,000 due to limitations on file descriptors. Main rules of tuning nginx, php and MySQL are the same as for high traffic site. You can read … Read more
You need a so called profiler to measure which part of your application does make use of CPU and Memory Resources. XDebug is such a profiler for example. Using it will show you exactly which part of your application uses how much of CPU and memory.
Actually, doing it for menu is good, you can even store entire HTML output and cut not only queries, but processing time too. Additionally, you can use WP_Object_Cache directly in conjunction with Redis/Memcached backend and avoid even single DB query for the transient itself. Re comments – they do change, so running WP_Comment_Query is unavoidable. … Read more
It’s really simply GoDaddy and slow mysql and webservers. I’ve heard apocryphal stories of people making lots of noise to GoDaddy support and as a result, speeds improve. Do they get moved to better servers or get priority load-balancing? Impossible to say. One other thing to try is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/use-google-libraries/ but sometimes it doesn’t help much … Read more
I beg to differ with the previous two comments. Using a static home page results in WP using an index scan on the posts table’s primary key, vs an (oh so occasional) index scan on post_date, status or post_parent in the posts table. In essence, the home page is dead slow because of the poor … Read more
What precision do you need? if it’s a state/national wide search maybe you could do a lat-lon to zip lookup and have precomputed distance from zip area to zip area of the restaurant. If you need accurate distances that won’t be a good option. You should look into a Geohash solution, in the Wikipedia article … Read more
Not worth the trouble. WordPress doesn’t eat a lot of memory just-because. It eats a lot of memory because it runs a lot of functionality under the hood. It is far more easier and efficient to cache results (page generated) with static cache plugin and serve that. That way most visitor will not even hit … Read more
One of the best pages describing image rotation algorithms I’ve found on the internet is tied to Dan Bloomberg’s excellent leptonica library. While the leptonica library itself is written in C and won’t help you, his page on image rotation algorithms: http://www.leptonica.org/rotation.html is definitely worth a read. You will most likely want to implement something … Read more