[sudo-sys] calendar plugin

[Matthew Senate]

Indeed, the http://time.ly/ plugin (as they've recently turned it into a
"freemium" plugin) is no longer desirable IMHO. Luckily, we have everything
under the http://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/ URL, so we can just make a hard
rewrite to the calendar http://sudoroom.org/calendar and start fresh with a
new plugin. However, we want to make sure the .ics feed still works, so we
need a replacement with an .ics export feature that will allow us to
continue syndicating events. Any recommendations?

There's a varnish plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-varnish/

but we could also run memcache with batcache
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/

either way we can do better php caching with this
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:57 PM, William Budington <bill at inputoutput.io>wrote:

> Hey, I just wanted to bring this to your collective attention:
>
> The calendar plugin we have on the wordpress site currently is pretty
> terrible.  It's the one we have on the Occupy Oakland site, and it
> brought the site to a grinding halt.  This had to do with the way the
> plugin generated its MySQL queries, which was pretty labyrinthine.  If
> my memory serves me, Mark Burdett rewrote part of the plugin to optimize
> indices on the table storing events.  We might want to have a look at
> that before this becomes a problem.
>
> I've also installed varnish on the server, and I'll be looking into a
> good way to cache these pages and serve them from memory so we don't
> have Apache/PHP hitting the disk and generating the page every time.
> I've done something similar for other wordpress installs, including ones
> being actively DDOSed, and it helped enormously.
>
> Bill
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