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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

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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28.04.2009 Wordpress 25 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

How to Beautify Code samples in your post using Syntax Highlighter

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I was reading Do you need all those revisions? post from Nice2All blog. In the post, i found piece of SQL and PHP code.

Below is the Sample 1, how the code looked in that post:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write("<i>Hello World!");
//-->
</script>

As you can see that the coloring, formatting is making the code stand out and there are also options like view plain, copy to clipboard, print.

I think i have around 5 posts that show code samples in the posts and here is how it looks.

Below is the Sample 2:


<script type="text/javascript">
<!–
document.write("<i>Hello World!");
//–>
</script>

I know every one would prefer the Sample 1 rather than the Sample 2.

As soon as i read the above mentioned post, i left a comment asking the author about the code format and found out that it can be done by just installing a wordpress plugin called SyntaxHighlighter Plus.

How to beautify code sample in your post using Syntax Highlighter Plus:

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21.10.2008 How-To, Wordpress 11 Comments

Increase comments on your blog using SezWho

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Entrecard + SezWho=Increase readers and comments

Entrecard + SezWho = Increase readers and comments

I joined Entrecard community one month back. I can tell you one thing that more number of readers have engaged with my blog and are regularly commenting.

Yesterday, i found out that Entrecard has joined their hands with SezWho. Immediately i jumped to sezwho website to find about it.

Well its an another great service that you can add in your blog by installing their plug-in.

SezWho - Empower your community and drive traffic with Comments, Blog rating

After going through their website, i decided to install the SezWho plug-in on this wordpress blog.
With this plug-in, the commentators will be rewarded for their comments on this blog and becomes an incentive to comment more on my blog.

Benefits on commenting on my blog:
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18.07.2008 Blogging, Entrecard, Wordpress 22 Comments

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