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Changing away from the “wp_posts table for all things” as a convention would vastly improve WordPress performance.

Talk to someone about how gross this is and they’ll start justifying it to you as “history” and then talk about how cool it is that WordPress was never meant for what it’s used for today but still works. It makes all the managed hosting feel like one big conspiracy.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to optimize raw queries in that stupid framework. Thank god for the rise of SSG and decoupled content management system.



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