Revisions and growing indexes
If you look into the WordPress database, table wp_posts, you’ll see lots of records … much more then the actual displayed posts and attachments combined. The reason lies in revisions. Among others, by...
View ArticleqTranslate plugin performance optimization
Installing a qTranslate, multi-language enabling WordPress plugin, can increase the time in which your blog loads. My installation of the blog, with all the plugins (including qTranslate), loads in...
View ArticleChoosing a CPU for WordPress server
Running a WordPress blog, with lots of plugins installed, requires a reasonably capable server. Running a custom theme and multiple plugins makes the response times skyrocket on an old processor like...
View ArticleSpam attack through wp-login.php?action=register
On the 15th of May my girlfriend started complaining abut the number of new users with suspicious data that have registered on her blog. Looking at the Apache logs: 111.94.XXX.XXX – –...
View ArticleqTranslate support for »Google XML Sitemaps« plugin
Having qTranslate, multilingual WordPress plugin, installed, brings some problems – between them are slower performance and incompatibility with other plugins. It is said, that having a XML sitemap...
View ArticleHTML table reorganization for WP-Table Reloaded WordPress plugin
In this post I’ll write about another problem with a WordPress plugin. Blogger, for whom I’m managing the WordPress installation, had another wish for plugin customization. The installed WP-Table...
View ArticleSetting client caching for WordPress media files
Read this as you were a TV commercial anchor: Does your WordPress blog have images attached? Do your users suffers form slow page load times? Fear no more. The client image caching tutorial is here. I...
View ArticlePerformance improvements in PHP 5.4.0
One day I looked at a presentation about the upcoming PHP 5.4.0. I just stared at the slide 3 when I saw the numbers for performance and memory usage improvements. I said to myself: I have to make a...
View ArticleqTranslate qtrans_use recursion optimization
This is another post (first post) about qTranslate performance optimization. This plugin really slows down the blog I’m administrating, so it keeps taunting me to optimize it’s execution. The already...
View ArticleTuning CPU performance on Linux server
If you have an older desktop CPU for the server, like me (AMD Phenom II), you web applications may be suffering from slow page loads. Some (older) CPUs switch to the faster frequencies from...
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