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Gary Pendergast
Personal blog · pento.netprogrammingwebsecurity
Gary Pendergast's personal blog at pento.net covers programming, web and security. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “WordPress Importers: Free (As in Speech)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a bookmark about partitioning the WordPress comments table, cited in a discussion of WordPress multisite performance and running without plugins beyond Akismet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- WordPress Importers: Free (As in Speech)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
What Hacker News says?
I agree that this is mainline code. I have a couple of multisite instances and I allow no plugins beyond Akismet purely to make upgrades and performance a no-brainer. Yet in my pinboard I have this bookmarked: http://pento.net/2011/04/28/partitioning-the-wordpress-comme... Yup, I had to partition the comments table. I've been watching this too: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress... I'm will…
Comment linking /2011/04/28/partitioning-the-wordpress-comments-table/
on “My experience with WPEngine”Submitted HOWTO: Fork WordPress as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress Importers: Stating the Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PayPal is Still Bad at Account Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress Importers: Free (As in Speech) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress Importers: Free (As in Speech) as a story · 1 points
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