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Blog slowed down after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Today, i upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.8. The upgradation went fine without any problems.

Wordpress 2.8

Wordpress 2.8

But after upgrading, I felt that the Dashboard and wordpress admin pages were loading very slow. Each page was taking 5-10 seconds to load.

I then opened the blog and tried browsing some posts. There was the same effect. The blog was slow.

It was for sure that Blog slowed down due to Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade. My first suspect was to check the plugins. There are 40+ plugins that i use. I was sure that this is due to some plugin which may not be supporting Wordpress 2.8.

I went to Plugin page and disabled all plugins at one go and saw the pages started loading faster.

I then started enabling plugins one by one and then I found the culprit plugin that slowed down the blog post upgrading to Wordpress 2.8 :) .

The plugin was Performancing Ads plugin. I disabled the plugin, jumped to Performancing Ads and got the javascript code to display 125X125 Ad on the sidebar.

I was surprised and was also upset on myself to see that i was using a plugin instead of placing just a one liner javascript to display the ad :(

The problem was solved.

Did you guys find any problem? If yes do leave a comment about the problem and the plugin that caused the problem after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8. I am sure that this will be of help to all those who have faced problems after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8

If you are new to Performancing Ads, Then Try joining Performancing Ads

12.06.2009 Blog Related, Blogging, Wordpress 18 Comments

How to Find Broken Links, Missing Titles, Image alt text with Xenu’s Link Sleuth tool

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Jonny from Jonnys Blog left a comment few days back on my Previous Post Broken Links Remover - A must Wordpress Plugin. He mentioned a freeware tool that can check all the broken links of any website. I took a look at that freeware software. It is a great tool to use for all the webmasters.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a freeware tool to check Broken Links of your website. It uses multi-threading to scan broken links. Hence, it is very fast compared to any other link checking software. Given the URL of the website, It can come up with all the broken links withe the details like title, type, size etc. It does all this pretty quickly.

How to use Xenu's Link Sleuth

  1. Download and install the program
  2. Run the program and enter the URL of the website which you want to check
  3. Now it will check for all links like normal links, images, backgrounds, style sheets, scripts and java applets.

Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu's Link Sleuth

Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu's Link Sleuth

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12.05.2009 Blogging, How-To, Utilities, Webmasters 16 Comments

Greet your Blog visitors using WP Greet Box wordpress plugin

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I have found a new Wordpress plugin called WP Greet Box. I am found it really interesting and am impressed with this plugin. I am going to first instroduce you to WP Greet Box and will give my review!

What is WP Greet Box?

This is a Wordpress plugin which show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL.

Below are Few examples

If visitor arrives to the post from Google search engine, they will see a message asking to subscribe to the RSS feed if they liked the post. The plugin will also show posts based on the search keyword used in google search engine.

If a visitor arrives from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter.

You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.

These greetings helps the visitor with the suggestions and reader interaction.

Screenshot

WP Greet Box - Greeting Message

Features

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18.02.2009 Blogging, Wordpress 28 Comments

Win a Flip Mino HD at Smarter Wealth Contest

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is running a contest. Enroll in the contest and stand a chance to win a brand new Flip Mino HD. This is the easiest way to win a Flip Mino HD to win. Try your luck!

Win a Flip Mino HD. Try your luck!

Win a Flip Mino HD. Try your luck!

The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your plasma) and you can even edit your footage right on your device. This device is so small that it will fit in your pocket so you will never miss capturing a moment ever again.

How To Enter

Just sign up for Ryan's newsletter and post about the contest on you Blog.

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Win a Flip Mino HD contest now.

All the best!!!

12.02.2009 Blogging, Freebies 6 Comments

Wishing you a Happy New Year 2009

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2009.

Happy New Year 2009

2009 is here. After an eventful 2008, we are geared up for more action and fun this year. Hope this year brings lot of success and happiness to all.

Last year was a successful year for this blog. Hope this year makes this blog more popular. Hope you all will keep visiting to this blog!

Stay Connected. Happy Blogging!!!

01.01.2009 Blogging 23 Comments

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