[typicalrunt]

Valid point. What I keyed on in the article is that it is a complex install, and that tells me that maybe his CMS is working against him. In those cases I like to remove the impediment and simplify the data model (which should simplify the code).

[ohashi]

I can't comment on the specifics but he said it was something default in the comments table and modules I think. For a big project like wordpress, I would try to understand why a certain decision was made. Try to understand the consequences of that decision vis-a-vis how I would want/expect it to work.