[wp-testers] Wordpress scaling problems

[Paul Robinson]

I know this is probably completely irellivant (my bad spelling kicks in) but
I have, what I consider a whopping, 15,968 images, 710 posts and 6 pages and
WP seems to be coping all right. I was just wondering if I will hit some
sort of limit soon seeing as the attachments, revisions, posts, pages etc
are all handled and stored withing the wp_posts table? Or is this slow down
problem entirely confined to the pages system & category permalink?

Also isn't detached media, attaching & de-attaching images etc, coming in WP
2.9 seeing as the media overhaul was put back after the late release of 2.7?

I may be way off, It has been known to happen. :P.

Paul.

2009/1/29 matthijs <matthijsenator at gmail.com>

> I would also like to know in which ways exactly wordpress has this scaling
> problem. The issue I had was specifically with
> %category%//%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
> removing the %category% removed the problem. But that wasn't possible in
> this case.
>
> Or, as I have done now as a temporarily solution, is: remove as many
> attachments as possible. That's an issue which has not been discussed in
> this thread by the way. Currently, if you have a post in wordpress (or
> page)
> and have uploaded media for it, the post gets those as attachments. Now
> even
> if you don't use them anymore in the post, the attachments stay coupled to
> that post. So say you have a page or post in which you place a picture or
> file each week. After a week you place a new one. You don't remove the
> other
> existing files because it's handy to have them in your media library for
> reuse later.
>
> Now wordpress will write rewrite_rules for all those attachments. If you
> have a page with 30 attachments, for each it gets maybe 11 rules, then you
> have more then 300 rules for a single page, from which 90% is not needed
> anymore. So maybe this is also a direction in which some improvements or
> changes can be made.
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