2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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layout: post
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title: "Wordpress madness"
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2016-02-26 15:26:26 +00:00
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date: 2012-06-14 06:40:12
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2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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tags: [wordpress, ranting]
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permalink: /blog/2012/6/14/wordpress-madness
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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I’m a bit fed up that I had to install [MySQL](http://www.mysql.com/) on my
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server to have [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/) working, so I’ve Googled a
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2015-04-22 14:01:51 +00:00
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bit to find a solution for my pain. I found
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[this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases). I don’t know when
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2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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this post was written, but I think it’s a bit out of date. I mean come on, PDO
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is the part of PHP for ages now, and they say adding a DBAL to the dependencies
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would be a project as large as (or larger than) WP itself. Well,
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yes, but PHP is already a dependency, isn’t it? Remove it guys, it’s too
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large!
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Okay, to be serious… Having a heavily MySQL dependent codebase is a bad
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thing in my opinion, and changing it is no easy task. But once it is done, it
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would be a child’s play to keep it up to date, and to port WP to other
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database backends. And it would be more than enough to call it 4.0, and
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raising version numbers fast is a must nowadays (right, Firefox and Linux
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Kernel guys?)
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