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There's a difference between full page caching like you're describing and in application caching. Most Wordpress caching extensions work internal to the applica
by tedivm 4y ago
There's a difference between full page caching like you're describing and in application caching. Most Wordpress caching extensions work internal to the application, not externally by putting something in front of it. With one of the popular extensions you can reduce database calls to basically zero without putting a http cache in front of the application.
- cnity 4y agoI think the implicit point made by GP is to question what the purpose of database calls are to deliver a blog post. If the post were just some HTML and CSS, it should be able to be served with very little processing power. It's unlikely that dynamic template population is needed for blog posts.
- bornfreddy 4y ago> If the post were just some HTML and CSS, it should be able to be served with very little processing power. Actually, with caching - they are. The database is there so that the person writing the blog post doesn't need to be very technical, or maybe so that they don't need to make a special effort just to update some post. In the end everything is about convenience.