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Watch Out for WordPress

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:40 am
by supermike
You might be thinking you can take WordPress and slap it on as the homepage for some client's forum or ecommerce website, such as connecting WordPress to Vanilla (getvanilla.com) or to vBulletin, or connecting WordPress to Magento Commerce.

Well, this recent analysis shows it's a fairly bad idea:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001105.html

Jeff Atwood shows that WordPress sucks CPU like crazy. As soon as your client markets his site, the homepage could slow to a crawl.

Instead, he recommends MovableType.

Re: Watch Out for WordPress

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:52 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
I'd suggest education, and caching. Resolves a lot of problems for some weird reason. If more people read instructions, and applied a few Google searches, the world would turn a lot more efficiently ;).

Re: Watch Out for WordPress

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:03 am
by 落寞三少
8O 8O 8O

Re: Watch Out for WordPress

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:50 pm
by matthijs
I think there's quite some discussion in the comments about the validity of his findings. And there are some pretty big blogs out there running wordpress.

A lot also depends on plugins and how your theme is set up. Some plugins make a few extra calls to the db, and some themes do the same for really simple stuff that could be just as well be hardcoded in the html.

My own blogs hand it pretty well. Even if traffic triples on some days.... to 30 visiters :)

Re: Watch Out for WordPress

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:19 pm
by Kieran Huggins
IIRC (I read the article a while back, great blog!) the general thrust was that caching is important. This is especially true for PHP apps, as the entire app is loaded and torn down on every request.