This weekend I presented at WordCamp Paris 2015. My session was titled “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch”. The talk ran through issues with WordPress search, what Elasticsearch is, setting up an Elasticsearch cluster, and configuring ElasticPress. Elasticsearch is a very exciting technology and I am thrilled at the chance to spread information about it. I [...]
In a past blog post I explained why featuring posts using a taxonomy term is much more performant than using a meta query. The comment I get from people is “that’s awesome, but using tags to feature a post is not a good user experience”. I agree, attaching a “featured” tag to featured posts, while [...]
So I’ve read all over the place that looking for posts based on a taxonomy is much quicker than looking up posts based on post meta. But why? I’ve yet to read any sort of technical explanation that satisfies my curiosity. I decided to do some research. I wrote some example code and used the [...]