the problem of wp post meta you have explained in this article is really nice. I hope it will help lot of people here who will read this too.
This is a timely topic worthy of much scrutiny and discussion. I'm all for my own tables and intend to do so but I'm thinking there is going to be redundant data and felonious violations of norma...
In reply to Jamie. Very good point to consider. If the information...
One other point to add to the list of criteria is search. With CPT your item can be returned as part of the WP search. Without, it's pretty difficult (I've not yet found a way that works well any...
As our plugin, CSS Hero, is storing a lot of informations on the database, we opted for going 100% your way: custom tables. Way more efficient and easier to troubleshoot. Much better. If I would ...
Hello. I went through this too and discovered idiorm (GitHub). Pretty simple to use and it sticks to some WP Coding Standards ;) So the code sniffer won't argue about it.
Just read this and i must say, it was a great read.
Great stuff Pippin, great stuff. You explained the EAV table structure problem of wp postmeta very well. This will help a lot of people. Thanks.
Great. Thanks Pippin. fyi - It would be nice if there was some sort of industry standard (e.g., naming convention) for custom tables and associated fields / columns.
In reply to Jeff. Having had those experiences has been tremendous...