Uncached Custom Queries

  • jsedwick

    (@jsedwick)


    8 months ago

    I’m writing to discuss a concern regarding the deployment of your Editoria11y plugin across our WordPress sites at my educational institution.

    We are eager to utilize Editoria11y to enhance the accessibility of our web content, recognizing the plugin’s potential to make a significant impact. However, we encountered a setback when our hosting service provider, informed us that the plugin does not adhere to their coding guidelines due to the use of custom queries without caching, which could lead to performance issues on their network.

    Understanding the importance of both performance and accessibility, I would like to inquire if you are aware of this limitation and if there are any plans to modify the plugin to incorporate caching for custom queries. Such an update would allow us to deploy Editoria11y at scale.

    Thank you for your attention to this issue and for your continued efforts in improving web accessibility.

    • This topic was modified 8 months ago by jsedwick.
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  • Plugin Contributor John Jameson

    (@itmaybejj)

    I’d…love to know more. Are they saying they have observed performance issues, or that automated code scans detected dynamic queries?

    Editoria11y’s queries should only run for logged in users with authoring privileges — there should be no DB activity at all for anonymous traffic, or even for authenticated users without author privileges.

    The author-facing queries are so dynamic there is not much that can be cached. So…I can try to rewrite my queries if hosts are complaining about code style, but in practice I do not expect to see performance issues as written, nor improvements by adding a cache layer that mostly returns cache misses.

    That said — v1.0.18 did resolve a bug that was causing performance hits on certain multisites. If they had observed issues, that may now be resolved.

    Thread Starter jsedwick

    (@jsedwick)

    Thanks for that information. I’ll certainly pass along your feedback and ask them to elaborate more on how they tested the plugin. I’ll circle back.

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