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Tag: multisite

  • Making user queries in WordPress scale

    Making user queries in WordPress scale

    As one of the maintainers of the users component in WordPress core, the question of how well sites with lots of registered users scale, is an important one to me. The idea of sites with hundreds of thousands of register user is make more complex when you add multisite into the mix. So for a…

  • Development improvements in WordPress 5.1

    Development improvements in WordPress 5.1

    This post is extremely late to publish, but I thought I would see publish it anyone, as someone might find it useful. Here are a list of important tickets in the WordPress 5.1 release. Multisite Introduce shared wp_blogmeta database table Improve site creation in multisite Implement `wp_initialize_site()` and wp_uninitialize_site() Introduce `ms-site.php` and `ms-network.php` files Use…

  • The state of fields API and Meta in core.

    The state of fields API and Meta in core.

    So this is a post that I have been meaning to write for a long time. I think that the fields API and how core handles  meta is without doubt the most important problem that is facing the WordPress project. But looking the work done to date on the fields api, it can get a…

  • Adding the Networks endpoint to WordPress core

    Adding the Networks endpoint to WordPress core

    So as part of the Nijmegen WordCamp, I run the core team at the contributor day. Even through this took up a lot of my time, I still had a little time to work on networks endpoint for core. There was an existing ticket for this and it is on the Multisite roadmap that we have been…

  • Introducing site meta

    Introducing site meta

    There is a new feature that is coming to WordPress multisite is and it is called site meta. This new functionality, was originally purposed by John James Jacoby and it is key building block for the future of multisite. But to understand it’s importance, you must first understand how WordPress multisite is built. The basics There…

  • What am I working on

    What am I working on

    This is the first in a series of posts about what I am working on in the open source community. I am currently in a maintainer on WordPress core and have a number of open source projects on the go at any given time. I thought I would start to highlight some of the code…