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The other day I finished a side gig I was doing - a Wordpress site recreated using the Wayback Machine - the site went down a while ago and the admin stopped an
by Tade0 4y ago
The other day I finished a side gig I was doing - a Wordpress site recreated using the Wayback Machine - the site went down a while ago and the admin stopped answering phone calls, not to mention emails.
It was a largely pleasant experience, taking me back to my early years as a "web developer". I had to modify some PHP files because the theme used didn't offer slots for widgets in places I wanted it to.
That being said uncached the site takes over 20 seconds to render. CPU load wasn't high so I can't help but wonder what was it doing all this time.
- jwie 4y agoI’d had a site in a similar state, and I did figure out what it was doing. Client had launched a product that was a bit more successful than typical. Nobody could access the site though. I dig around a little, come to find a neat little snippet of template looking for a featured user for some markup. The genius who set this up iterated through each record trying to find the featured item. One query at a time, testing each record in the application for the flag. Php is fine, some very inexperienced “developers” use it though so you find a lot of gems like that in the space.