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layout: post
title: "Wordpress madness"
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date: 2012-06-14 06:40:12
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tags: [wordpress, ranting]
permalink: /blog/2012/6/14/wordpress-madness
published: true
author:
name: Gergely Polonkai
email: gergely@polonkai.eu
---
Im a bit fed up that I had to install [MySQL](http://www.mysql.com/) on my
server to have [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/) working, so Ive Googled a
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bit to find a solution for my pain. I found
[this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases). I dont know when
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this post was written, but I think its a bit out of date. I mean come on, PDO
is the part of PHP for ages now, and they say adding a DBAL to the dependencies
would be a project as large as (or larger than) WP itself. Well,
yes, but PHP is already a dependency, isnt it? Remove it guys, its too
large!
Okay, to be serious… Having a heavily MySQL dependent codebase is a bad
thing in my opinion, and changing it is no easy task. But once it is done, it
would be a childs play to keep it up to date, and to port WP to other
database backends. And it would be more than enough to call it 4.0, and
raising version numbers fast is a must nowadays (right, Firefox and Linux
Kernel guys?)