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WordPress › Support » No images in rss feed

 

English: Temple Square Organ Recital RSS Feed Logo
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WordPress › Support » No images in rss feed. I had this problem so this is the first post with the new settings. I wonder how many RSS readers I have who will care? Sometimes I think that WordPress is just another kind of vanity publishing. You really wonder if it is worth the effort or if there is a better way to help the world.

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An Alternative “Related Posts” WordPress Plugin – Where Did They Go From Here | Search Engine Journal

 

Wordpress, Technorati, GBC stickers
Wordpress, Technorati, GBC stickers (Photo credit: Titanas)

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.

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WordPress › Support » WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache

 

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WordPress › Support » WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache. I had used Super Cache for a long time, then stopped using it. Then I started to use it again and now after testing Google Page Speed is ranking my page as much faster with Total Cache. Clearly it is the superior product, and doesn’t need more add ons like WP Minify. I am going to delete that plugin next since it has it built-in.

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Working on performance

Speed Painting and Studio Update
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I’ve been working on performance on my website using the suggestions from Page Speed Online. Since yesterday I have gone from 80 out of 100 to 87. I added WP Minify which compresses javascript/CSS. I also used the compress option in WP Super Cache. I am going to be working on that today as well. Google seems to make a big deal about performance in their search ranking.

After further tweaking with W3 Total Cache my site scores 95/100 on google speed page online test. Thats the highest ever for me. I am so pleased with that 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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