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@irene Well, WooCommerce is owned by the same company as WordPress, and they offer commercial solutions based on the two...
I'd definitely use something else, but it wasn't my decision -
@hitko wordpress is a blog at core.
Woocommerce is like adding NOS to a go-cart and thinking its a suitable candidate.
im actually not suprised it would handle db queries poorly given WP isnt great at it either -
@hitko Clarification: Woo was *acquired* by Automattic, because it was a way to capitalize on the most popular solution for a common use case. As such, most of its quirks have never really been ironed out.
On that note, I fucking hate the way WooCommerce screws up templating in WordPress... -
@Kaji It's been almost 4 years since, WordPress itself went through 3 major and 250 minor versions since. In that time, they could've done a complete rewrite if they weren't only focused on milking the popularity of WordPress.
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@hitko You won’t see any argument from me on that point (you’ll see a long list of rants regarding Gutenberg in particular if you check my history). Listening to their user base is not something they do even a fraction as well as they would lead you to think, as that incident exemplifies.
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Update: just found this https://github.com/woocommerce/... Not a single change has been made in that direction since...
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@irene Which basically means that every big WordPress website is shit?
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@irene I think it's literally garbage. From a purely technical standpoint it's one of worst decision one can make, imho. And I've always wondered how this monster could gain such widespread distribution. Jeez.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
God I fucking hate WordPress
Today I found out a single WooCommerce site is using 20% of database CPU (for comparison, 50 other sites use only 10% between them). Upon investigation it turns out that WooCommerce loads every single product in order to do the taxonomy count. Because the data is stored as PHP-serialised values in post meta, there's no way to do a decent "SELECT count() ... GROUP BY ...". And that code came straight from the WordPress devs, no more and no less...
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