Tagged: Plug-ins

Broken Links WordPress plugin not working?

English: Screenshot of the WordPress Plugin OSM

I really like the Broken Links WordPress plugin. It scans all the web links on my website, and tests them to make sure they work. If they don’t work, it gives me a list and then I can try them to double-check they don’t work.

However about 6 months ago it stopped working. It might have been because I added new plugins in that time. Anyway, I deleted it and reinstalled and now it is working great. This is just to share that reinstalling plugins sometimes makes them work again. Most of the time plugins just work, and they continue to work through WordPress upgrades.

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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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