If you are plugin developer, it’s very important to give as much info about the plugin updates as you can before the blog admins update the plugin to a new version. Also, some of the plugin control panels go into different menus, and it’s a good idea to have direct links on the plugins panel also.
WordPress is a very powerful platform, and it allows you to customize and change many things. Not everything is accessible directly from standard WordPress settings panels, or from the wp-config and settings files. Many options are hidden, available through hacks and very poorly documented. So what you can do then?
Here is the first post with results from benchmark tests I conducted over the past few days. Before we proceed to results, I will give more details on the methods of measurement used for the administration part of the tests. Results contain both memory usage, time needed for server to prepare the results and the total output size.
