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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

NiharsWorld Blog now on Imagination Theme !

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Few days back, I informed you that I Want to Change My Blog Theme. I had also asked for suggestions. Lot of loyal readers had given their suggestions. I was happy to see the response. From that day onwards, I was on the look out for a new theme.

As i was hunting down for a theme, I went through a lot of sites. But, I finally decided to go for Imagination Theme from CSS Jockey.

Big thanks to Shankar Bakshi 's post where i came to know about Imagination Free Theme.

Its a beautiful and stylish theme. Its free and has got lot of settings that can be set from Dashboard.

Free Imagination Theme Features

  1. Plug & Play - No Programming Knowledge Required
  2. Comes with 9 preloaded Color Schemes
  3. Customize the Interface to make it unique
  4. Built-In Twitter, Flickr and Entrecard Widgets
  5. Built-In Feedburner RSS Integration
  6. Widgets Ready & Plugins Compatible
  7. W3C Valid & Cross-Browser Compatible
  8. Fully Documented Admin Options
  9. Compatible with WordPress MU (Multi-User)
  10. Standalone processing without interfering with default WordPress tables
  11. All this and lot more, absolutely Free!

After downloding the theme, it took me two full days of tweaking to CSS and migrate some of the things that i was using in old theme and wanted to use in this theme as well.

Imagination Theme with 9 Color Schemes

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24.05.2009 Blog Related, Wordpress 47 Comments

How to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

I was reading an excellent post How to Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Hacked. In that, the author has listed out different ways on how you can stop your Wordpress Blog getting hacked.

The second point in that post is to "Remove Meta Generator Tag". This tag reveals the Wordpress Version you are using. This is the reason to remove that tag.

As instructed, i headed to header.php of my current theme and looked for the following line to remove it.

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7" />

I was surprised to see that line was not there but, it was getting generated when i view the source of my Blog.

I then found a way to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag.

If you look the contents of header.php carefully, you will find a function call wp_head() just before tag. This is the function which is adding Wordpress Meta Generator Tag.

Our aim is to remove that tag from getting generated by wp_head() function.

Following steps are to remove meta generator tag in wordpress:-

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14.05.2009 How-To, Wordpress 24 Comments

I Want to Change My Blog Theme. Any Suggestions?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Guys, This blog has been dressed up with two themes before. CopyBlogger Theme with Three Columns from the inception of this blog way back in December 2007 to May 2008 (6 months) and WP Premium Theme(current one) From May 2008 to till Date.

I have done lots of tinkering to this theme from Increasing the Sidebar Width, CSS Changes, Implementing Rounded Boxes in Sidebar and lots of other stuff. I am now looking for a new look. I am now bored of this old look :)

I would like you all readers/bloggers to pour in with your suggestions on Themes that i should try.

The new Wordpress theme should have following features

  1. SEO supported
  2. Two sidebars on right side
  3. Should fit 125X125 3 ads on the sidebar at the top
  4. Each sidebar should be 160px minimum
  5. Adsense support with HIGH CTR :)
  6. Other stuff...

I hope you guys can refer me Nice Impressive Free Theme/Premium Theme which is a bit cheap.

Hope to see lot of suggestions.

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06.05.2009 Blog Related, Wordpress 24 Comments

Increase Blogs internal linking using SEO Smart Links Plugin

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Yesterday, I came across a post - Increase Internal linkings on Blog. In that post, the author talks on How to better internal linking in wordpress blog. He mentions use of 4 Plugins which will you achieve this.

I am already using 3 of the plugins out of the 4 listed there. SEO Smart Links plugin which was new for me. I immediately jumped on to Wordpress admin interface and installed SEO Smart Links plugin.

SEO Smart Links Plugin puts Contextual links

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Increase Internal Linking - Smart Links Plugin

Increase Internal Linking - Smart Links Plugin

Contextual Links are the backlinks from the post. A number of such type of backlinks can easily take your blog/article page to the top of any keyword. So, even if you link to your own posts from another post, that would still count as another contextual backlink.

The plugin automatically adds links to other pages of your blog from a page with the desired keyword as the anchor text. It basically scans the post and find the keywords or a phrase and matches it with already existing post / tags / category and links it.

SEO Smart Links Features

  1. Allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs
  2. Allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window
  3. Ignore list for keywords you do not want to link
  4. Control external links with custom keywords
  5. You can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

I started using it and found some Contextual links getting generated. Need to monitor and also will try setting up keywords vs URL's

Download Smarts Links Plugin and further Description

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