[wp-hackers] WP 3 Multisite List Blogs

[Otto]

You know, get_blog_list doesn't look like it'd be so bad if you turned
off the postcount queries.

-Otto



On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 1 Aug 2010, at 11:33, Brent Shepherd wrote:
>
>> The obvious choice would be get_blog_list:
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_blog_list
>>
>> Though I see it's been deprecated in 3.0 with no alternative provided.
>>
>
> It was deprecated because the query is sucky on anything but a small install and you really don't want to do it on every page load where you want to display the list.
>
> It is also not something that most sites want.
>
> An idea solution would use a similar query to build the list and then make heavy use of caching with the result.
>
> Depending on how often your list changes you might want it to cache for minutes or for the cache to be invalidated when someone adds/modifies a new site
>
> Cheers
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