Hi all – I’ve got a quick question.
I’m in the process of setting up a site and am trying to work out the best practices to future proof the site. The site will allow users to download files. I currently have it set up so that they can filter the files by software, version or required plugins, with those versions and plugins as custom taxonomies that I categorize each post against.
I of course also have the alternate option of setting those values as custom fields for each post. Using ACF, this would even allow me to set default values for new posts – which would be good for me as I will be allowing users to submit files to the site eventually and this would make submission/admin much easier.
Anyway, the question is: Does filtering by ‘meta’ vs filtering by ‘taxonomy’ using the S&F Pro plugin have any effects on the speed of the database query or rendering of the results at all? For example if there were eventually say 10,000 posts to filter, would either approach (meta vs taxonomy) have a performance benefit? Or does it make no difference whatsoever?
Thanks!