What's the best way to store data with a plugin?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@NateDhaliwal

I think PluginStore is the most suitable way. A site setting will not fit this use case. Thanks!

I think we should probably deprecate PluginStore cc @david , it just leads to pain down the line.

Creating new tables and models are the way to go imo.

@NateDhaliwal

My use case is this: any topic or post created from the time the plugin is enabled is synced and stored somewhere else. But topics before that aren’t, so I have to run a job to sync those, perhaps in batches of 100. I need to store the lowest topic I’d so the next batch is that minus 100, and so on.

Post and Topic custom fields can work for this. Downside though is indexing can be tricky cause it does not feel right to add indexes to core tables. Which is back to just introducing new tables.