Ron Strilaeff

Thanks for the info. I’m looking at phpMyAdmin on my BlueHost account, and the system variables and statuses are many. Do you have any further clues on what to look at that may become a bottleneck.

I could ask them to tweak it or if I upgrade I’d like to know what to ask about.

Thanks, Ron

Great, that took care of it: my test shows that Published, Scheduled AND Draft status all come across intact … thanks!

But about that single vertical bar…this reference show it as a bitwise inclusive OR operator where the result is an integer with bits set if either of the two operands have the corresponding bit set.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php

The desired result (true or false) may actually work in this case, however, I think that line 720 should have the double vertical bar to match the logical “OR” intended. I’m not a PHP guru by a long shot since I cut my programmer teeth on Pascal/Delphi which is a strongly typed language, so the looseness of C , javascript, and PHP kinda creeps me out. 8-/

Ok, I’m pretty sure I’m breaking some rules here since I’m assuming WordPress will “cleanup” whatever it was doing at the time. But this little snippet works by making an immediate exit from wherever to just show my “not-found” custom page.

$homeurl = home_url('/not-found/');
echo "<script>window.location = '$homeurl'</script>";

If I was designing a proper search plugin, I would have done this a bit more elegantly, handling the possibility of empty results and maybe even having the failover “not-found” page name configurable. But as it was, all the visitors would see was a blank page with no explanation. Now it’s WAY better and I can make that page do anything I want, even using a custom page template.

I’m open to learn if someone cares to suggest a better way to do this.

Thanks, Ron

Thanks for replying Fredrick. I abandoned DB-Cache-Reloaded, not sure why now.

My two main production sites chowstalker.com and dessertstalker.com are using QuickCache which seems to have helped with the “First Byte Time”, but webpagetest.org still gives me an “F” for “Cache Static Content” (which I thought was the main purpose of a caching plugin). But they are chugging along fine with no one complaining of downtime or slowness. They have issues with an inefficient, db-heavy plugin so will eventually be replaced with a new design to take advantage of the built in features of WP3.x, so I’m not worried about them until something breaks.

For future projects I’d like to use something more robust (like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache), but I’m afraid I will need a university course to figure out how to make them work. Does W3TC work with out-of-the-box, default settings so I can just activate it and let it work in safe (but probably not optimal) mode?