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Over the last 20 years, I repeatedly got frustrated with how slow WordPress (WP) is, especially once you stack a few plugins on it.<p>Since 40% or what of all websites still run on WP, I decided [and please don&#x27;t ask why, I have no idea what drove me] it could be useful to apply my C&#x2F;C++ performance experience to a brand new from-scratch WP core to save about 50% of infrastructure while simultaneously increasing performance. With agent assisted coding I thought it could actually be doable to build out most of WP&#x27; API surface, and it was! (over multiple months)<p>Try the live demo, including wp-admin!<p>It shows WooCommerce + Elementor working, which is remarkable because I had to build an embeddable PHP runtime that covers most of Zend PHP&#x27;s features for it. Runs 2x slower than Zend, but BookPress is <i>still</i> faster than a performance-tuned WP instance with OPCache, page cache and object caches.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to replace WP, and am faithfully implementing the API to avoid any divergence or &quot;BookPress&quot; handling in plugins or themes. BookPress is meant to run alongside a PHP WP installation, with a single-command migrate and un-migrate.<p>Looking forward to what you all think.

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/15 01:04:05