Why not custom post types?

Hi KTS915,
custom post types are being stored in wp_posts and wp_postmeta table. All what you have in WP are already there. Don’t you think those become very large and heavy? If you familiar with MySQL you should see that it’s dozens time faster to get x, y and z data from the same _wpforo_posts table then get those from wp_post and from another wp_postmeta tables. wp_post and wp_postmeta logic is terribly heavy for forums. If you want to have professional and fast forum board, you should forget about custom post types.
I’m sorry but that’s not good idea to have millions of rows in wp_postmeta, this is the bad practice for bulletin boards. Now you’re asking us to change forum tables to this practice.

Don’t you think those become very large and heavy?

No. I have sites running 70+ plugins and over a dozen CPTs, on a host that charges me less than $5 per site per month, and pages load in well under a second.

CPTs exist because they make for flexible site functionality and are easily integrated with other plugins — just as WordPress intended.

In any event, your response here is a bit ironic given your response in the wpDiscuz forum that you provided just a day ago to a person asking about the possible inclusion of TinyMCE. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/great-plugin-but-slows-down-site-1?replies=4 You said there that “tinymce is the most heavy thing. It’ll slow down your page 3-5 times. We have no plan to add it.” Yet you have built TinyMCE in to wpForo!

No. I have sites running 70+ plugins and over a dozen CPTs, on a host that charges me less than $5 per site per month, and pages load in well under a second.

Forum can be tracked as a separate CMS, it’s a large project which may have millions of entries. I don’t think it’s comparable with even hundreds of plugins. One forum post or topic inserts 5-10 rows in wp_postmeta in forums, which use CPT. And those forums are simple lightweight forums. A full-fledged, complete forum board like wpForo may need 10-20 metadata. You’ll get 10-20 times more rows in WP tables. You’ll affect default WP functions, even all other simple plugins which use CPT. You’ll get less WP speed after each new forum topic and post. Keeping such a large project in separate tables is a good way to keep WP and other WP plugins intact. Those performance will not depend on size of your forum.

CPTs exist because they make for flexible site functionality and are easily integrated with other plugins — just as WordPress intended.

Sure, but the performance of website is the one of the most impotent think. Also wpForo has and will have more options to manage every feature. If you have a problem with some point of forum flexibility just let us know. We’ll work around that for sure.

In any event, your response here is a bit ironic given your response in the wpDiscuz forum that you provided just a day ago to a person asking about the possible inclusion of TinyMCE. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/great-plugin-but-slows-down-site-1?replies=4 You said there that “tinymce is the most heavy thing. It’ll slow down your page 3-5 times. We have no plan to add it.” Yet you have built TinyMCE in to wpForo!

I’m really sorry to hear that you feel that way. I’m just explaing the main ideas of forum feature logics. In this case I’d say there is a big difference between WordPress comment system and forum. As I said before forum is a separate CMS, and such a large project can load TinyMCE it’ll not affect your post and page load speed. Having TinyMCE in forum is almost “Must”, but having TinyMCE in comments is an extra. The quicktags are more than enough. WordPress allows a few HTML tags in comments and all those can be inserted using Quicktags. But Forum post is like Blog Post must have more HTML options. We don’t want to affect WordPress post/page loading time with wpDiscuz, so we’ll not add this. Also, comment system has many forms (main form and reply forms…), so you have more performance issue than one forum post form. I hope you see that we’re always thinking about the optimal and lightest ways to solve plugin issues.

Thank you for your interest in our plugins, we work hard to make those as user-friendly as possible.

OK. I had hoped that, since this plugin was still in beta, you might be persuaded to change your approach. But evidently not. Obviously, it’s your plugin and you are free to do with it whatever you choose. But those choices mean that it’s definitely not for me. Good luck!

gVectors Team is right. The custom post type isn’t suitable for forum architecture, that would make the wp_post and wp_postmeta table very very bigger. I don’t like bbpress just because this reason. If your forum is so small, bbpress maybe a choice..

No. I have sites running 70+ plugins and over a dozen CPTs, on a host that charges me less than $5 per site per month, and pages load in well under a second.

Did you mean this ones?

I use Lightningbase, and it has by far the best support I’ve ever experienced. But you might also like to checkout Siteground, especially if you are in Europe.

Maybe possible for small sites but not as my site which have 8GB and will grow more,after i installed wpForo my site loads faster than before when i had bbpress and buddypress and i think this plugin is a treasure i fully agree with the plugin developer.

iTesla, you do realize that this very site, www.ads-software.com, is running bbPress, don’t you? And that this site is enormous? And that bbPress uses custom post types? (I don’t use bbPress myself, but you brought it up.)

In fact, it’s on bigger sites where using custom post types is most beneficial, because this enables much tighter integration with with other things happening on your site.

Your problem isn’t the size of your site — if you have plenty of images, that soon mounts up, but they don’t load all at once, so it’s irrelevant — but the quality of your hosting. Do yourself a favor, and get a better host.

would also love for topics and replies to be custom post types. That way I could integrate into other plugins easier. For now, looks like I have to go back to bbpress ??