LightPress

As much as I like the concept of WP "pages", which should enable the use of WP as a lightweight CMS with built-in blogging, I do not think it is currently usable for anything more than very small personal sites. The problem is (again) in the liberal use that WP does of MySQL resources, and in the bad design of its DB layout.

I just finished inserting a couple of hundred pages in the db to move a site which is currently using a custom CMS to WP+LP, and imagine my surprise when trying to access "Manage Pages" in the WP admin console PHP exited with a

error. I raised

to 24M, restarted Apache, and......waited 25 seconds for the page to load!
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