if you’re trying to get the most out of your server hardware running your Wordpress-powered website, you’ll need to know how it is doing coping with WP intensive SQL usage.
As a developer using wordpress for all sorts of needs, you’ll be often faced with this question: should a particular functionality be implemented as an external plugin, as a function inside your theme’s functions.php or as a widget?
A reflexion on what really matters in web design: is it the content first, as Jeffrey Zeldman had it, or the user experience, as Steve Krug argued in “Don’t make me think” ? Let us dig in.