A short rant. Yes, it is cool that WordPress is OpenSource and that is has a big community. But big communities always attract capitalists – people that want to profit from all this. With the current state of OpenSource WordPress, it seem to me like almost every plugin is pay-walled, our data is sent everywhere without much clarity and, besides coding up custom solutions, WordPress users are forced to comply to all this.
Current AI tools allow even novice devs to create custom plugins. Yes, this might expose the site to potential security risks, if not done carefully, but the code from offical plugins often also lacks best practices. So I say it is time to get rid of our dependence on all the spamming plugins that fill our dashboards with trash. Let’s use AI at its best: To create small projects, just like plugins.
I’ll keep you updated and will in time post a nice tutorial on how to set such a plugin up.
Until then, maybe a small side-note I discovered while debugging performance issues:
Yes, again a plugin, as everything in Worpress is a plugin. But QueryMonitor is one of the plugins that does it right. No unnecessary notifications, no premium features, no wired user data publishing. It just does what it is supposed to: motitor queries (duh). But it actually helps pretty well in identifying any bottlenecks. In our case, it was a cookie plugin that could not reach the google fonts api…
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