bonusball

Hello Stephan

Sorry for the late reply. I worked with my host to resolve the problem, eventually we totally turned off caching altogether, and it still didn’t work. I use WP Engine.

They are wondering if it’s a cookies or sessions problem

https://wpengine.com/support/cookies-and-php-sessions/

Do you think this might be it?

Hi Stephan,

Yes, it works beautifully on staging. I tried using <picture> but that didn’t work.

I contacted my host and they said that production is cached with Varnish/Nginx and maybe a cookie or arg needs to be excluded from the cache for this to work properly?

It turns out that my host doesn’t strip out comments, but debug mode doesn’t output on prod, so surely there must be something cached there. Do you have any idea what it could be? If I pass it on to them they can exclude it from cache.

Inserting the bare link will transform it into an embed via oEmbed:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Embeds

It’s too bad about this.

One option for people who can’t wait: doing a find and replace on the quicktag itself, to turn it into the regular youtube iframe embed.

… hoping someone will chime in with a more sane workflow?

I’ve set the upload queue to overwrite itself, so there is neve a queue there. Still, there is considerable lag between updating and uploading css & js files, and having them distributed via AWS.

Surely there must be a better way to deploy, than wait for the styles to “kick in?”

Ok, I see it’s supposed to work that way.

So I copied everything to my bucket for example:

https://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/img.jpg

is now:

https://distro.amazon.com/2010/07/img.jpg

but I reckon this is not good because there seems to be no easy way in the plugin to modify the path it should be using.

Is it supposed to be flat? ie:

https://distro.amazon.com/img.jpg

Although that’s not very good. If I can get w3 cache to work, will it mirror the wp directory structure from my server to cloudfront?

Amazingly, I can find no info via Google on this, all I can find are tutorials talking about how “easy” it is. I’ve been working for a full day and it still isn’t working.

Hm still doesn’t work.

I also have the same problem. Is there any way to fix it?

Yes, I was looking at that.

But after setting it up, if I start a new post, will my files automatically be uploaded to my bucket?

I also had problems with “popular posts” plugins. Tracking popular posts on a blog of any size is difficult, which is why you don’t see it a lot.

Bonusball, the problem with turning each one off and testing is the inability to track CPU usage in real time. All I can do is turn off the suspected ones and wait to see if the site crashes when there’s enough traffic to trigger whatever is causing the spike in CPU usage.

That’s right.

1) Disable all plugins.
2) Turn on 1 plugin.
3) Wait. And Google that plugin in the meantime. Are there a lot of problems with it?
4) Site crashes? Then that’s the plugin. Doesn’t crash? Turn on another plugin.
5) Site crashes? … etc.

Hopefully you don’t have a lot of plugins. If you do, that could be your problem.

jennyd – I’m no whiz but when I have a problem like that, i ask my host. They are better at tracking processes than I am. They always tell me which plugin is the problem, and I remove it. This just happened to me today in fact.

If they can’t tell you, then switch all the plugins off.

Then turn them on one by one and test. Also Google each one, see if there is a known problem.

Personally I’ve been with DreamHost for years. I really can’t say enough good things about them, their customer service is great, and the site has reasonable uptime. I have 20k+ visitors a day and run their PS package which allows me to scale as little or as much as I like.

I really have nothing to do with Dreamhost at all. I run 6 wp sites there and one wpmu, all at a very reasonable price.

Ok so part of the problem with your query is it returns everything – drafts, pages, posts, everything.

So the first guy was on the right track, here’s what I ended up with:

SELECT $wpdb->posts.*,
coalesce (
    (
        select max(comment_date)
        from $wpdb->comments wpc
        where wpc.comment_post_id = $wpdb->posts.id AND wpc.comment_approved = '1'
    ),
    $wpdb->posts.post_date
) as mcomment_date
from $wpdb->posts WHERE $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish' AND $wpdb->posts.post_type = 'post'
order by mcomment_date desc
limit 6"

What it’s missing is that I want to include new posts with no comments.

That query shows posts with recent comments. It doesn’t include new posts with no comments.

So take a look at this page:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/3

New posts show up at the top, even with no replies. And then if a post has a reply, it also shows up at the top. Most message boards work this way.

Yes I do get a list of posts. Let me try this some more.

But here’s the thing: I’m looking for a slightly different query. What I’m trying to figure out is how to get a list of post in a category, which are sorted in chronological order, where posts with new comments going to the top of the order.

This is how most forums work. If I write a new post, it goes to the top of the list, and works its way down as posts are added (and if no one comments on my post). If someone comments on my post, it goes to the top again.