#wordpress 2022-01-13

2022-01-13 UTC
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billbennettnz1 Here's a follow up on testing Jekyll... I have a site, well a single page for now, up at https://www.digitl.nz/wordpress/2022/01/12/From-WordPress-to-Jekyll-Project.html The post is, in effect a to-do list. Indieweb is only a small part of that, and not one of the first things to do.
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billbennettnz1 Perhaps I should move this from #wordpress, I don't think it fits with #dev what about the more general #indieweb channel?
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[jeremycherfas] As a non-dev who sometimes learns interesting stuff there, I’d say #dev is fine and for particularly indieweb bits, indiewebnews.
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billbennettnz1 @jeremycherfas sounds good to me...
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Zegnat [grantcodes]: thanks again for also taking a look at the Docker thing! I was testing with some different versions today, and just dropping down from wordpress:5.8.3-php8.1 to wordpress:5.8.3-php8.0 seems to fix it. Definitely something about PHP there...
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Zegnat I think this might have been the problem I have been running into. My guess is WP is relying on a specific default error mode that has been changed in PHP 8.1: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/10/wordpress-5-9-and-php-8-0-8-1/#php-8-1-mysqli-default-error-mode-changed
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Zegnat I did a quick write-up of the problem in a discussion thread. If anyone runs into any more information, let me know: https://github.com/docker-library/wordpress/discussions/677
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Zegnat I might just try the release candidate for WP 5.9. Seems worth it to me.
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: Thinking about the old WordPress link manager.. weren't you playing with it?
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[tw2113_Slack_] it’s what powers the blogroll
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GWG Yes
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GWG Could it be overloaded to store my 44000 bookmarks
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GWG In your opinion?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i don’t see why not
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GWG I just need to create a link meta table
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[tw2113_Slack_] most likely
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GWG You seem to be able to use the metadata api for anything
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GWG Is that better than another 44000 things in the post table?
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[tw2113_Slack_] probably
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GWG And it would be backward compatible
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GWG You can also already attach taxonomies to the link table
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[tw2113_Slack_] looks like all the attributes for a given link are in the 1 table
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GWG But I need more
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GWG I want author
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[tw2113_Slack_] WordPress isn’t doing anything with it all, may as well do what you want
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GWG Is there an advantage to that vs a custom table that has everything I want other than backward compatibility
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[chrisaldrich] If you expand on what's already there GWG, you'd have the potential for providing additional functionality for those already using it rather than building something entirely separate from scratch.
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Zegnat I would love to see how WP / Gutenburg would handle dropping 44000 things into the posts table
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Zegnat has successfully gotten WP installed 🎉
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GWG Zegnat: Ask [chrisaldrich]
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GWG Zegnat: that's also why I was thinking
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Zegnat WP is very different from how I remember it. What with block editting in the theme and all this other new fancy stuff...
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GWG I don't like that fancy stuff
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GWG I'm a man of the people
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[tw2113_Slack_] i work with a client that has a 2million row postmeta table
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Zegnat I have no opinion on the fancy stuff yet, I am just happy I got it running :D
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: How do you tune for that?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i don’t have an easy answer off the top of my head since it’s a pretty complex site
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[tw2113_Slack_] it’s for a running community which have their own races post type and whatnot
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[tw2113_Slack_] just try our best to be as optimal as possible
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Zegnat I do not think 2 million records is a problem for MySQL/MariaDB, per se. So as long as WP is not doing to many queries that require the DB to check out all of it, it should be fine...