[wp-hackers] Plugins and network activations

[Mike Little]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 16:54, Dino Termini <dino at duechiacchiere.it> wrote:

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> On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > The correct solution is to not have a table per blog in a Multisite
> install.
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> Also, how come Wordpress itself does not follow this rule? ;) Why a plugin
> must scale and wp don't?
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>

WordPress never needs to create new tables for *all* blogs in a network in
one go. The new tables are created for one blog when that blog is created.

There are no scaling issues with that process.

Mike
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