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I will always fondly remember that time i was in college (~2011), and created a fully working social network for my classmates using WordPress and ungodly amount of Plugins, and ducktape code I barely understood.

A user profile display was ~30 SQL queries (who needs cache), and my poor 5$ VPS was sweating ...

learned a lot on what not to do! fun times !

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30 SQL queries are basically normally functioning WordPress, it's a bit more unusual when it gets to 150+ queries zone :)

I remember laughing because one of the plugins was storing the HEX color value of a small banner in a DB and for every page load it needed to fetch it again even if the banner was nowhere on the page.

Suddenly it changed my look on all all those "easy" knobs and fields from the admin panel and they looked very costly

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