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I have not posted here to seek support. I have explained why I have posted here. www.ads-software.com recommends hosting where you can be down for hours, days and week and this apparently does not seem something significant. Just few comments on their support page.

Have same issue myself:

https://prntscr.com/1ysfjoo

Anyone? ??

Thanks for quick answer, Evan. General Settings was what I checked first of course but it seems OK ??

Actually, <<Next>> link goes to correct next month (August, 2014). As this calendar is not plain calendar and is linked with posts, I thought if it thought that I have some posts in 2003 January and that’s why it shows it, is it possible?

Ok, thank you for information.

Anyway, I am testing Pods on WPEngine trial installation and I am really excited with it already. Not only it handles custom post types & taxonomies & fields, but how it handles custom settings pages/items will save me hours of work.

Thank you!

Yes, I depend on WPEngine very much as the project is complex and I am more than happy that I can outsource things like performance, security and scalability.

As with WP_Query, I think, 8 fields will be enough for filtering in most cases. I think even 4-5 fields will be enough. So let me rephrase the question – things are going slow after 8 fields exactly or each field causes slowing down? I mean filtering 1 field is faster than filtering 2 OR filtering 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 fields require same time? In other words, does WP_Query have problems exactly after 8 fields (cause that’s how it’s configured right now) OR it’s speed problem even when you are filtering 2 fields BUT it isn’t noticeable?

WordPress search does not allow that ability to search across multiple sites, are you using another solution for that?

I am going to run WordPress Multisite, not single installation and while it doesn’t offer such functionality by default, it’s relatively easy to achieve that with custom coding (actually there are pretty good plugins out there which we are going to use). Few examples are WordPress.com search system which searches in millions of blogs and Edublogs.org which let’s users get search results from almost 2 million sites (their sites of course, they are running Multisite).

Hello Scott,

Thanks for your reply. It’s quite optimistic for me ??

Let me answer & ask more questions on some parts of your reply.

The general consensus within the WordPress ecosystem is that custom tables are bad and should be avoided primarily because they operate outside of the normal architecture of WordPress itself.

Yes that’s what I meant in “being outside of WordPress territory”.

Something like Pods offers a fusion of both, which lets you have custom post types / custom taxonomies, but powered by a separate table for their custom fields. It also integrates with the *_*_meta functions in WordPress, which WP core and other plugins utilize to interact with the fields, so the location being in a table is almost inconsequential.

In other words, using Pods will let me have native Custom Post Type functionality AND custom tables. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/62862/how-to-use-custom-post-type-apis-but-use-a-different-db-table?rq=1 – This is about one-year-old thread about same topic and author of reply says that it’s not possible I think she/he wasn’t aware of Pods at that time or maybe she/he was talking about some other kinds of problems?

For searching, I’m not sure the performance is entirely noticeable if you’re on an optimized server / site utilizing object caching etc. Pods caches just like WordPress for it’s data across the entire codebase, so that’s something we’ve thought about deeply.

I have chosen WPEngine as my managed WordPress hosting so I think optimizing server won’t be a problem for me.

As with Pods, let me tell you that I have discovered this framework today despite that I am planning website project for almost 2 months already and it seems that it’s must-use plugin for my project, isn’t it?

I recommend keeping to the standard Custom Post Types and meta-based field storage in most cases, but something you’ll find is quite bad when filtering is that when you run a query in WordPress for 10 fields, that’s 10 extra database SQL joins just for the meta alone, and that can really slow things down when you have a lot of data.

As meta-based field storage causes slowing things down and the solution is custom database tables, does Pods solve this? I mean what you have said above that you can have Custom Post Types as well as custom database tables and the only downside is WP_Query which you are working on. One more thing, I am not developer myself, could you tell me what that means in my scenario? I mean what will WP_Query problems will cause. Is it mostly search-related, or what?

And the last question here I am going to run WordPress multisite as I have already said above and actually, there will be two search locations:

1. On specific site – where end-user will be able to search custom post types only from that specific site;
2. On homepage – which will index everything across the network;

So, in first case, we are talking about defined quantity of posts. For example, maximum quantity of custom post types our site will have is hardly about 40 000. And we will have only few of these kind of huge sites. Others will have hundreds or few thousands.

In second case, we will have to index hundreds of thousands of products just like wordpress.com search does.

So, as quantity of items are slowing things down, it will impact only second case right? I mean, sites, itself won’t have huge quantity of posts (if what you mean in HUGE isn’t few thousands). I think it’s good that WordPress Multisite creates dedicated table for each site, this will help specific sites avoid this slowing down right as search bar on specific site already knows in which table it should search for typed product, so instead of searching in hundreds of thousands products (like it would on single installation of WordPress) it will search in thousands.

Thanks Sergey, I’ve seen it already.

Thanks for summing up, Ipstenu. ??

It wont be hard for me to choose one of nice free .ge domains (as there are none of WordPress related sites on .ge yet). Moreover, I am running several large projects (locally) and even if I choose wp1sdaxdj23.ge it won’t be problem for me to advertise it, but I won’t choose it of course.

Anyway, wp-georgia is good example to take into account (wp-ka is somehow unattractive).

So, I will make this site awesome and at the same time, I will support ka.www.ads-software.com too.

Thanks for discussion everyone!

Germany is a not a good example to follow because the site does lots of things we would never allow on www.ads-software.com and therefore is not a great representative of the brand. (Right now people, such as yourself, think they’re official so in the future I hope they switch domains.)

I don’t want my post to be reason of it anyway..

So to repeat, please do not register the wordpress.ge domain.

Thing is I have already registered it in February, this year but I have stopped after that (I haven’t start using of course, if you try to enter it doesn’t load). I couldn’t see any problems for registering this domain, I saw problems about USING this domain.

I have to say that, if I haven’t registered this domain, one of REST 150 people should do this definitely and most of them don’t care any WordPress Domain Policy rules.. So, buying first was ideal decision to prevent this domain from illegal use and have to repeat that it wasn’t illegal move from me (as there is nothing said about registering domain). Internet users just can’t see any difference between FREE wordpress.ge and wordpress.ge registered by me.

There is a lot in development with regards to localized versions of WordPress, such as language packs, so my suggestion would be to try and make ge.www.ads-software.com as awesome as possible and work through official channels.

Yes, I will definitely make ka.www.ads-software.com as awesome as possible.

So, I will be really pleased to hear “summing-up-answer” on this question:

As I have already registered this domain (February, 2011), I can redirect it to another domain, which doesn’t include wordpress, RIGHT? (+ I will place notification on that site to tell users it is not official, official source is ka.www.ads-software.com)

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If you already have a domain with “WordPress” in it, redirecting it to the “wp” equivalent is fine, just as long as the main one users see and you promote doesn’t contain “WordPress.”

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@ipstenu,

I am asking for that permission too but if it is NOT possible I’ll ask WP Foundation just to register this domain name.

Thing is, that about 150 people in Georgia had filled domain registration form for WordPress.GE and I have paid more than anyone in order to have it myself. I won’t use it without permission I wanted just to secure it (there are many people who are talking in the name of different company with help of domain names, so I “secured” wordpress.ge domain and now I am waiting for permission or just answer).

– ..and I think this is OK

If you already have a domain with “WordPress” in it, redirecting it to the “wp” equivalent is fine, just as long as the main one users see and you promote doesn’t contain “WordPress.”

I know that WordPress Foundation prefers to register this kind of domains itself, but they wouldn’t be able to register wordpress.ge as domain registrar doesn’t allow this (non-Georgian person to register .ge domain).

To sum up, there are two options here:

1. To give us permission to use this domain like Deutschland/Germany does. We would be extremely happy if you could do this.
2. To give us permission JUST to redirect wordpress.ge to wp-site.ge or something.

So, we would be extremely happy and extra motivated if you make German-like exception for us. I am personally sure that this will make WordPress popular in country, where only 100 bloggers are using it and no one thinks that WordPress can somehow be used as CMS. There is NOT anyone (in Georgia) who has ever created a WP theme, there are only 2 who created simple plugin which hadn’t been updated for years.

I, personally know Georgian internet-users psychology very well and I’m sure that WORDPRESS.GE matters for them more than wp-blog.ge (for example). This is what is specific for our users. Maybe WPCANDY.COM is popular because it doesn’t matter for US citizens there will be WP or WORDPRESS in domain, but it matters for Georgians, so it matters for us.

Let’s once again list everything here:

We would be extremely pleased if you:

1) Gave us permission to use this domain AND gave us official status

We would be pleased if you

2) Gave us permission to use this domain OR gave us official status (which we could use on different domain, as you don’t give permission on that domain)

We would be LESS than happy and MORE than sad if you (:))

3) Gave us permission to redirect this domain to WP-something.ge (despite it is already allowed by your domain policy) AND gave us official status.

We would be extremely disappointed, insulted and disgraced if you

4) Neither gave us permission to use this domain, nor official status.

* Kidding about last one ??

Thank you and waiting for good news,

Regards,

Kote

P.S. My kind advice is to add wordpress-deutschland.org in your domain policy in order to prevent users from mistunderstandings.

Talking about this one:

<whine>But I see other domains using WordPress in them!</whine>

If they’re not WordPress.com, WordPress.net, www.ads-software.com, WordPress.tv, or WordPressFoundation.org, they’re not allowed

Hello Matt,

That is not problem, we can run ka.www.ads-software.com too (despite it already has owners, but we can contact them) but I am talking something like WordPress Deutschland – more interactive, more attractive (for large masses) and more flexible to do MORE things, for example – whereas ka.www.ads-software.com supports Downloads, About Us and Forum (with English interface), wordpress.ge (like WP Deutschland, above) would include not only forums, downloads, about us and news of our company, but NEWS from WordPress planet with different categories (like wpcandy.com), we would review many, many themes and plugins, we would tell users about new discounts of different WP Theme studios, we are planning to work on translating of WP Books too.

And, at the same time we will run ka.www.ads-software.com (because it is official and it requires to be fulfilled).

We will also work on translating various popular themes and plugins (including bbPress and BuddyPress).

As to DOMAIN REGISTRATION, I could collaborate with WordPress foundation to register this domain and this is exactly what I am planning to do, BUT problem is that domain registrar (talking about .ge domain of course) has such rule:

1.6 Registrant should be physical or juridical person, who is citizen of Georgia OR has right to live in Georgia while domain is owned by him/her. (Sorry for possible mistakes in translation).

So, me – as juridical person (I am running company) can help you register this domain, that is what 1.7 rule says:

1.7. Juridical person, who has no registered representative in Georgia, has right to register one domain name with help of juridical person registered in Georgia.

To sum up, main purpose for me is to be official representative of WordPress in Georgia.

Best regards,

Kote

@ipstenu, thanks, I have just sent mail from that page.

Thank you tcbarrett!

Hi Samuel B,

Thanks for suggestion, I will use that contact form.

I think this would be beneficial as the present Georgian community doesn’t seem very active or up to date

Yes, though English is pretty popular as second language in Georgia, people is still very passive on global forums, because none of them are localized and they are somehow closed for them. Anyway, this doesn’t mean that they are not interested with WordPress, they are – but this community is pretty unorganized.

That’s why we have decided to create this noncommercial project and if we say that we are representatives of WordPress in Georgia, more people will join us in quicker time as reputation is very important for people.