On Saturday, November 17th 2018, I got to talk at WordCamp Edinburgh. The title was “How I became a core contributor and an expert on WordPress transients: A Developer’s Story”.

Below is a viewable set of slides from the talk (which lack the appropriate fonts)…

Alternatively, click here to download the presentation (for Apple Keynote) – this includes the required fonts and, as presenter notes, my script.

Alternatively, click here for a PDF copy of the slides and presenter notes.

References

• Description of transients from Codex
• Support ticket – “why do I need this?”
• Support ticket – 3.8GB options table
• “Everyone seems to misunderstand how transient expiration works…”
• Description of object cache
• Original ticket about transient housekeeping
• Now fixed in 4.9? Code evidence
• Original ticket about transient name lengths

Plugins mentioned

• Transient Cleaner
• World Domination
• YouTube Embed

Kudos

Thanks for John Maeda for the idea about using my phone number for questions.