Tagged: Plug-ins

How to Disable “This Page Has Insecure Content” Warning in Chrome – LockerGnome ~ LockerGnome

 

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How to Disable “This Page Has Insecure Content” Warning in Chrome – LockerGnome ~ LockerGnome. I got this message today in Chrome version 17. It explains how to find the insecure content and that it normally is related to a plugin.

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Plugins that can spike CPU

CPU times for the past hourI learned tonight that three plugins that I was running caused so much CPU usage that my hosting provider shut me down. So if you are using this, watch your CPU usage or the same might happen to you.

  1. Broken Link Checker – This makes sure that you don’t have any broken links. I had it running all the time. It was only 50% in accuracy. So if anyone has anything that works better I would love to know it.
  2. SEO auto links and related posts. This provided many links automatically from my past post history. It has the side effect of finding the same content, so it’s not the best in my opinion.
  3. SEO Friendly images. This automatically provides alt and title descriptions. This was the third most cpu intensive plugin.

So it looks like dynamic plug-ins can cause some serious issues.

Also I had been having a small increase in traffic lately and so reinstalled WP-Supercache plugin. I used the mod-rewrite feature which I haven’t used before, so perhaps this will make a difference.

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Going Retro for awhile

If the website looks different it is because I am auditing my plugins. My current hosting provider suggested that I disable all of my plugins to get a baseline of my sites CPU activity. So probably for the next 24 hours, it will look kind of sparse.

It will be interesting to see what plug-ins are spiking the CPU in shared hosting. I have to say that InMotion has been the most helpful WordPress host that I have worked with. I am sure that with their help, I will figure out what plug-ins are causing performance issues. I will share the results when I am done.

I have often thought of something that an experienced IT person told me once. He said “Simple things work best”. He didn’t believe in multiple layers of software to try to accomplish something that hardware did better. He also seemed to get better results by designing the process to be more reliable as well. Perhaps I should emulate him more.

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15 Great Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website

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15 Great Ways to Secure Your Website. This is an understandable and actionable article that discusses what you can do to protect your web site. Also I have noticed many plug-ins that claim they increase security. So if you don’t wish to follow these suggestions, type the word “security” in your Plugins Add New box and see what you like.

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Moving to self-hosted solution

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Hello readers, today I am starting to move to a self-hosted solution. Why? Because I was approached to have a banner ad and I would like to explore what self-hosting is like. So expect to see more articles about plug-ins and features for self-hosted WP sites.

It looks like there is an upgrade to WP today. There is a writing helper and Request feedback option below my new post. I wonder if this means that they are working towards optimizing SEO?

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 runs out of memory -108

Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter.  There are two solutions from this webpage.

  1. I had the same problem and I went to DocumentsandSettingsuserApplication DataAdobeAdobe Illustrator CS2 Settings and erased everything inside the folder, then I opened Illustrator and all worked fine.
  2. We were having the same problems and we changed the “Plug-ins and Scratch Disks” preference for Primary AND Secondary to “MAC HD” instead of “Startup” and everything is wonderful

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Accidentally deleted the Quicktime plugin?

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Fortunately you can fix this problem without reinstalling/retyping your serial number.  ”I found a solution after much searching online.

I downloaded QuickTime 7.6.6 from Apple.

I opened the DiskImage.

I downloaded the application Pacifist. And used this program to open the Package file inside. I found the plug-ins and extracted them to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.

The problem was that QuickTime Plugin.plugin and QuickTime Plugin.webplugin were accidentally deleted. I tried to reinstall QuickTime from the Mac OS X DVDs and from standalone files from Apple, but for some reason the plug-ins weren’t installed into /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.”

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