An Alternative “Related Posts” WordPress Plugin – Where Did They Go From Here | Search Engine Journal. I am trying this to see if it is useful. It seems to work pretty well. I tested it out and it did make a link. I wonder what kind of internal linking it will show. I am always surprised to see the popularity of some posts.
Otherwise you may not only bring your WordPress account down, but you may also crash the server for everyone else. That is what I just did today.
I called in and the server administrator called me, and we discussed several plugins that can cause problems on shared servers. I disabled CommentLuv, YARP, and Broken Link Checker. While I was at it, I also disabled Google Analytics, Google Site Verifier and one other. He said that YARP was known to cause problems, and once I described what Broken Link Checker does said that might happen as well. He also suggested I not use VaultPress which he said also coincided with the high server usage that caused the crash.
I had never been told by other providers that this was a problem. I wonder now if WordPress could put out some guidance and tell people not to do shared hosting if they have more than 10 plugins.
It was a disaster. I don’t know where to start in explaining it.
The first day that VaultPress transferred my site over, they had problems with their database. Well that seems reasonable, since that is a big request and I’ll just wait a few days until the database is ok. I am sorry to report that I had database problems every few days.
The last straw was a few days ago when I went to my site in the morning to check on it, and it had a 500 error. The note on the webpage said to tell Fatcow if I did anything wrong. I hadn’t done anything unusual. No updates, or installing werid plugins. Fatcow responded later and said they had fixed the problem, but the damage was done. My numbers were the lowest they were since my 3rd month blogging. That meant lost revenue from showing the banner at the top, and that’s how I pay for the site.
I am using Inmotion Hosting now and I hope it will be better than the other WordPress hosts I have tried. Why is it so hard to have reliable hosting? I guess that starting with WordPress.com set a high expectation for me. That things would just work, and that the performance would be great. So far I haven’t had any problems with the new host. There might be a small problem with a third party plugin for Chrome/Firefox, but I will let you know if I get that resolved. I haven’t told them yet, so I will go do that now.
40+ Most Useful WordPress Plugins | Dzinepress. I have used many of these plugins and they are very useful. Some are not currently working with the latest shipping version so check the details before you download them.
I tried for 2 years all kinds of backup plugins with GoDaddy. GD is a terrible host, and doesn’t work with many plugins including backup ones. I have probably installed more than 50 of them in the last two years.
So I am glad to report that my friend offered to pay for me to use VaultPress. I have to say that it has been fantastic and totally worth it. Today for example, I received an email notification saying that one of my plugins had an injected hacker code and that they deleted it. They listed 5 steps for me to take to secure my WP site, and when I responded I made a suggestion for them. I got a response that gave me further information about another plugin I had that had “issues” so I deleted it. This is incredibly valuable and I will upgrade if I get an advertiser that allows me to afford this next step of service.
Being self-hosted has been a great experience. I encourage anyone who is interested in learning more about things to give it a try. I have been able to upgrade things, and to me, having a secure backup was one of the major reasons that I stayed on WP.com for so long. I wasn’t convinced that being self-hosted would be worth it, but I was wrong.
The History of WordPress 2003 until 2011 | Inside-WP.com. It has really grown from its humble beginnings hasn’t it?
It must be challenging to keep up with the frequency of updates between platform makers and developers. If you have been using WordPress you get at least monthly updates for plugins, sometimes they come days apart.
To give you an example. WordPress just recently upgraded to 3.2. I love it. The downside is that all the plugins needed to be updated as well. So I have a modest amount of plugins of about 30. You can batch upgrade them, which I did. The downside and the monkey in the wrench is that there was a security problem with some plugins being hacked. So that required another round of updates a day or two later. All in all, lots of downloading time. I only have one blog, but if I had multiple blogs and they weren’t hosted at one site, this would be a major inconvenience. I am not writing this to complain about this, but rather to point out something that shouldn’t happen.
One of my plugins I’ll be generous and not name it, is out of sync with the WordPress.org version. The developer has a newer version of it posted on the website, than available at the WP.org version. This shouldn’t happen. Most of WordPress users I bet are small business and don’t have a ton of web experience. For someone to download, unzip, then use a ftp client to login and find the right directory and perhaps change permissions is asking a whole lot of someone. It is not a problem for some of us, but not everyone is lucky to have IT knowledge. Rather, a developer should make it as easy as possible for people to work with them. If for whatever reason their updating is hampered by WP.org, then they should have a backdoor to directly update the program inside their own plugin.
Am I being too harsh or asking too much? I don’t think so. Lets say that the company doesn’t care about the users time or problems in installing the software manually. I can think of three reasons off the top of my head why they would want to care about this.
Bottom line: To be seen as a market-leader you have to act like one. Go beyond what others do to please their customers and they will love you and reward you for it.
Top WordPress Plugins – Rising Stars | Prelovac.com. I tried out some of the suggestions on this blog and they worked great. If you feel something is missing on your site, you may want to look this list over. Now I need to update my list of what plugins I do use!
