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1. 

   tolmarc
   Member

   Hi guys,
   one of the most popular tips on the wordpress themes community, is when using a free theme, is to customize it with your information. instead of "bloginfo" write down your blog name etc. that's because this information rarely changes.

   In a theme framework, like thematic and others, many of the data is achieved by functions that call the database again and again. Is there a performance penalty on this matter as compared to a non-framework based theme?

   would like to hear your experience about this.

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi,

   started some testing on my local machine.

   I created a test page that runs:

   a) 100,000 x $test = get_bloginfo('name') => 18.9021 seconds

   b) 100,000 x $test = CUSTOM_NAME => 0.1547 seconds

   c) 100,000 x $test = CUSTOM_NAME with check => 0.3223 seconds

   d) 100,000 x $test = thematic_bloginfo() => 1.2605 seconds

   Comments:

   b), c) and d) are using constants

   I'll collect some more data 'bout a possible thematic_bloginfo() plus a nice addition plus some more stuff that'll speed up Thematic.

   Anyway .. looking on the number of total queries we are really good compared to a lot of other themes.

   Chris

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Update:

   I found some time today and started a ... let's call it proof-of-concept .. I did some one time magic to Thematic .. the theme can now use constants instead of get_bloginfo() or bloginfo() which equals the recommendation to hardcode the information into your theme. The magic itself is done only one time (!!) right after installing your child theme.

   I haven't uploaded my current code to the repository 'til now. Currently the magic code is very basic and has no error handling at all.

   Chris

   Posted 2 years ago #

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