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How to not follow your own advice or the cobbler's kids with no shoes.

FAIL!

This morning I was going through one of my Wordpress installs and I noticed that it was painfully slow working through some posts.

A few months back I setup a plugin to manage my WP database and decided to take a look at what it was doing.

Nothing...

Apparently, the plugin was broken but still running. I'm sure that it was something I had done to make it less effective (since the plugin author has some major skills) but the fact is.. the plugin that was backing up and optimizing my Wordpress database had gone the way of the epic fail and I had no idea.

So here I am the author of a post on tips for speeding up your wordpress install and the friend of WP-ninja (aka WP-Diddy or @human3rror) who also wrote a post about performance enhancements for wordpress.

Which advice did I follow?

Half of each article... Maybe.. and I was fully dependent on a plugin.

Anyway, I went back through the site this morning and performed some tasks and voila! (I knew that French would come in handy) major speedyupidness to the site.

So like the cobbler's kids who have no shoes I was the web guy with the slow website and no backup.

I'm glad the performance issues brought this to my attention before something worse happened.

Filed under: design side3media

Posted 1 year ago

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