[wp-hackers] overriding the built-in cache

[Scott Merrill]

David House wrote:
> On 05/01/06, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
> 
>>I am having some trouble with my wp-cron plugin, and I'm pretty sure
>>it's the new caching mechanism that's causing it.
> 
> 
> I thought one of the options this discussion in #wordpress produced
> was to use a direct query via $wpdb: did this not work?

I haven't gone the direct query route yet, because of Ryan's comments in
the category cache discussion:
> In WP, everything is public so plugin
> authors treat everything as fair game.  Everything is not fair game.  We
> need to do a better job of defining and documenting the boundaries, and
> plugin authors need to request API when there is something they need to
> get at.  If plugins are accessing global variables and doing lots of
> SELECTs, they need to make use of existing API instead or request API
> where there is none.



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