[wp-hackers] Two new, long-overdue plugins to make your wordpress life a little easier...

[Rafael Ehlers]

Pride or it wont be good for the WordPress.com .

If they really use wordpress.org latest software on that, maybe this change
of paradigm would totally bring a lot of problems to them!

Hence this difficult to change the direction of WordPress software on these
kind of issues.

Just a thought...

Rafael Ehlers

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew at graymerica.com> wrote:

> I have had this argument on this list many times and in person with WP
> core people.   I was told to my face, that they would never remove the
> URLs from the content.
>
> Here are my opinions.
>
> 1.  Everyone who is against relative URLs is just being obstinate
> because they have defended their position so many times.
>
> 2.  People who say you just download the DB and change it have never
> worked with a major client or done any enterprise development with
> WP.  Some of my clients DBs are over 4GB.  It is a ton of fun to
> reupload that.   Change the url via SQL breaks all the serialized
> arrays with urls in it.
>
> 3.  The development > staging > production and review process is on of
> the reasons I have started using Code Ignighter for my bigger
> projects.   I had too many middle of the night deployment issues with
> for my clients that require zero downtime.
>
> 4. The processor cycle argument is silly.   CPU is so cheap today.
>
> I love wordpress and thank everyone for being helpful on this list,
> but I can not understand why we can't just have the code use the
> SITE_URL and let it be stored in one place.    Make it a config
> value.  If you do not want to use it, you can ignore
>
> The objections are just so weak, I assume it is just pride at this
> point.
>
> Andrew
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