Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-4079189-20150830032821

The bad demo that I put together to show old and new infoboxes side-by-side is the only DPL function I have that currently shows the problem. I have only converted one infobox to the new style so far, and was trying to show my users the differences (after much CSS work).

For the record, I have not put any DPL function into general use that the manual declares to be "expensive". It also has a built-in hard limit of 500 results, which I have occasionally bumped up against.

I'm glad to hear there is a DPL-like tool in the works. It will be interesting to see if it can match the power and flexibility of DPL. DPL has a lot of quirks and is not for the faint of heart, but once I slogged through the documentation and experimented, I found lots of cool ways to use it. The Featured image, Did you know, Featured article, and Featured source templates used on our Main Page all rely on DPL to a greater or lesser extent. If you really want a list of all the DPL pages on our wiki, click here. You can ignore the links to user profiles because they all call the same template (it figures out the percentage of pages that the user has created). The interesting ones will mostly be in my user space or linked to the Main Page.