Blogging Tips, Tutorials, and WordPress Theme Guidance

Using WP-SuperCache to Improve Performance

by Matt Lawrence on July 8, 2010

We all love WordPress for its dynamic functionality and ease of use; however, anyone who has a high traffic blog understands that these luxuries comes at a performance price. The dynamic abilities of WordPress are provided by a combination of programming logic and data. Each time a visitor requests a page, the web server must process the PHP code which contains the logic and access information stored in a MySQL database. As the number of concurrent users grows, this process slows down your WordPress site. You may even see a lovely server error or white screen if you overload your hosting.

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Shouldn’t My Hosting Be Able To Handle That?

by Derick Schaefer on July 7, 2010

There is no doubt that traffic on your blog is exciting. Whether it be your first visitor, your first visitor from a search engine, or your first trackback, it is a great experience. With increased traffic and concurrent visitors, however, come hosting problems. In this post I’m going to define levels of traffic, common problems I see with hosting, and present a couple of solutions for you. I’ll try to do so in a way that isn’t too technical. If I loose you, ask a question on the comments section as there are no “stupid questions” on this blog.
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Why Is My WordPress Performance Tanking?

July 5, 2010

If you haven’t experienced your WordPress blog’s performance tanking, you will at some point. More frustrating than the actual blog performance issues are all of the dead ends you will encounter when looking for a solution. After months of having WordPress blogs crash during big traffic spikes, I finally rolled up my sleeves and came [...]

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Blog Rolls – A Definition and Common Mistakes

July 1, 2010

I was doing some reputation management research for a client the other day when I came across the blog directory on the site of a national legal organization. On blogs, we refer to a list of other blogs as a “Blog Roll”. The reason why I was studying this list was due to the writing [...]

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I Got An Email From Matt Mullenweg!

June 18, 2010

Well, actually a lot of people did. . .. because WordPress 3.0 Released yesterday! For simplicity sake, I’m going to let two videos do the talking about the release of WordPress 3.0. The first is just a great talk from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, at WordCamp San Fransisco 2010. It is really an [...]

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It’s Not Just Because “Blogging Is Cool”

June 16, 2010

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Social Media Intro

The provocative thing about blogs for marketing as a form of engaging readers in your message is that you can incorporate so many different elements.

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How Google May Day Impacts Bloggers and Blog Traffic

June 10, 2010

The buzz in the Search Engine Optimization community is a recent algorithm update that Google just completed referred to as the Google May Day Update. The changes are impacting the traffic of websites and blogs alike. The following post highlights these changes in easy understand terminology and provides a suggested course of action:

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