Thursday, December 27, 2007

Fix It: HemingwayEX without UltimateTagWarrior in WordPress 2.3

by Michael Sheehan on December 27, 2007

in General, Open Source, Software

As mentioned in my previous post, in order to speed things up on my blog, I have removed the UTW (UltimateTagWarrior) plugins. Unfortunately, the theme that I use (and subsequently modified) relies on UTW for a lot of things. One of these was causing issues for users coming from a Google search related to Tags. For example, if you Google “techdadblog tag Apple“, my theme was returning the following error on this URL:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function utw_showcurrenttagset() in /home/path.to.your.blog/wp-content/themes/hemingwayEx/tag.php on line 16

So, within that file (tag.php), the line in error is (line 16):

<h1>Tag: <?php UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet(‘tagsetcommalist’) ?></h1>

To make it work with the new WordPress 2.3 tagging structure, I simply changed that line to: [click to continue…]

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Blog Optimization…it’s WAY too SLOW!

by Michael Sheehan on December 27, 2007

in General, Open Source, Software

I use a couple of 3rd party monitoring sites including site24x7.com and mon.itor.us to check to ensure my blog is up and running. Over the past few days, I have only had a 94% uptime on my blog (according to site24x7.com) and this concerns me.

site24×7 stats

I had personally experienced issues (e.g., not being able to connect to the mySQL db, other connection errors and incredibly long load times). So, I opened a ticket with Dreamhost and they analyzed my site. Their conclusion? Too many plug-ins…

It seems that your scripts are over utilizing memory on the server.
Most likely, this is being caused by some of your WordPress plugins.

and
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