Taylor Lovett

Tag: Taxonomy Queries

Best Practices for WordPress in Enterprise at ZendCon 2015
Oct 21, 2015
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by
tlovett1
in Presentations
Today I am presenting at ZendCon 2015 on best practices for WordPress in enterprise. 10up open sourced their WordPress Best Practices (PHP, JavaScript, tools, and workflows) in late 2014. As the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, I drove this project and am the lead contributor to the docs. These best practices allow developers to…
A Performant Way to Feature Posts
Jun 21, 2014
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by
tlovett1
in Database Theory, WordPress Code Techniques
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…
Computer Science in WordPress
Jun 20, 2014
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by
tlovett1
in Computer Science, WordCamps
Last year I did a presentation at WordCamp Orange County, WordCamp Birmingham, WordCamp Toronto, and WordCamp Providence called “What You Missed in Computer Science”. I have a Computer Science degree which I believe has provided me with some tools to think about problems in a certain way. This presentation will teach you about some of…
Why Are Taxonomy Lookups Faster than Post Meta Lookups?
May 14, 2013
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by
tlovett1
in Database Theory, MySQL, WordPress Core
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…

Tag: Taxonomy Queries

Best Practices for WordPress in Enterprise at ZendCon 2015

A Performant Way to Feature Posts

Computer Science in WordPress

Why Are Taxonomy Lookups Faster than Post Meta Lookups?