Comments on: WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text

By: Thesis Tutorial Compilation

Thesis Tutorial Compilation — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:08 +0000

[...] Use Thesis to Display Text associated with Tag Author [...]

By: girliegeek

girliegeek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:03:16 +0000

[...] WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text [...]

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:49:07 +0000

Cool cool. Yeah, I’m really not sure. To be honest I feel like if someone uses Thesis then they can’t be too fussed about PHP requests to the server because the entire thing is massively PHP, more so than previous WP themes. You’re explanation is perfectly reasonable though.

By: dvg

dvg — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:07:21 +0000

You won't be bursting my bubble, Kristarella. Yes, you could use the has_tag() function instead of the switch() statement. It's really a rock and a hard place issue. If you use the switch() statement like I did, then you're looping through every tag every time a post is displayed. If you use the has_tag() function then you have to execute an extra if() for each tag you want to target. And I'm not 100% certain because I haven't really read through the entire WordPress core code, but I'm guessing that calling has_tag() for each tag you want to check is -- unless you are only doing it once -- going to require more server resources / database requests. Using the switch() is a single database query. Using the if ( has_tag( ' tag' ) ) method will require a separate query for each tag you want to target. Now ... I could be wrong about this because has_tag() might simply be checking a post class object which has already done the query, but I still think you're going to incur a greater processing cost that way. For a low-traffic blog the difference is probably irrelevant, though.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:47:29 +0000

Wow, I am not at all familiar with switch and case. I'm sure that will come in handy sometime. Would I be busting a bubble if I pointed out has_tag()?