[wp-hackers] Plugin to update all posts in a category

[Callum Macdonald]

Hi Robert,

I think you're right. What I might do is implement both, with an option 
to select the direct query as a fallback. Hopefully that will give me a 
good balance of compatibility and performance.

Thanks for the feedback,


Callum.

Robert Deaton wrote:
> On 2/25/07, Callum Macdonald 
> <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com> wrote:
>> G'day,
>>
>> 3) I plan to use a foreach loop to circle through each post and then use
>> the update_post_meta() function. Any feedback on this approach would be
>> great.
>
> Depending on how many posts you plan to accommodate, it may (and I say
> this with great hesitation) be better to roll your own custom query to
> update a batch of posts at once, as writes are expensive and you may
> easily stretch the time limit for loading a page. Just a thought.
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