[wp-testers] Wordpress scaling problems

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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am a PHP coder, but WordPress has always kinda stumped me a little. So I
> was wondering if anyone could tell me if I would encounter this problem
> using the %postname%/%post_id% permalink structure. I have nearly 18000
> entries (between posts, attachments etc.) in the wp_post table & my site
> still runs fairly fast.
>
> Just curious if changing my permalink structure would improve site
> performance?
>
> Paul.
>

As I understood, the problem only appears when using %category% in the
permalinks, so you should be fine. I guess the fastest permalink structure
would be simply /%post_id% but that isn't very useful in most cases.

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