Did Some Tweaking to Blazing Minds Today!

« Project 365 Photo A Day: After The Snow Project 365 Photo A Day: What To Read Next? » 20 01 2010 Did Some Tweaking to Blazing Minds Today! Posted by Karen in Blogging It seems that my blog has been quite hungry lately so I decided to do a bit of spring cleaning to help it speed up a tad and be less server-side hungry. So I have deactivated a few wordpress plugins these were the Cute Profiles, Wibiya Toolbar, WordPress.com Stats and the WP Greet Box, also I removed several “buttons” from the columns on the blog which were not really needed. And as another work around for speeding up the blog I have installed WP Super Cache, since removing the plugins etc and adding Super Cache I have noticed a real speed difference, so hopefully this will help others viewing the site and speed up the process. So lets see how it goes and maybe I will remove some other plugins in the next few weeks, depending on how everything is running, I may also consider changing the design of the blog to something a little quicker If you enjoyed reading this post, then please remember to post a comment, Subscribe to my RSS feed. There’s still time for you to enter the LeapFish $100K Cash Dash. Related posts: Blogging Tips from Blazing Minds in 2009 Top 10 Search Terms Used To Find Blazing Minds Some Slight Updates to the Blazing Minds Blog! Wow Blazing Minds Has Really Grown! Made some slight changes to the blog Tags: Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 4:20 pm and is filed under Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Written by Karen (648) Published Articles Karen is founder of the Blazing Minds blog and avid blogger of all sorts of interesting and odd things. She is also a keen music producer and founding member of the electronica music duo Remergence... Follow Karen on Twitter @BlazingMinds 18 Responses to “Did Some Tweaking to Blazing Minds Today!” Extreme John Twitter: extremejohn says: January 20, 2010 at 7:17 pm Your blog is loading MUUUUCH faster Karen, killing those plugins was a good call. I have a post scheduled for tonight titled “Bloggers Clean Up Your Crap”. They say great minds think alike [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 21st, 2010 at 2:48 pm I think my “spring clean” was over due, I even removed some code from the header section, it’s certainly seems to have done the job [Reply] element321 from evolutionary desings Twitter: element321 says: January 21, 2010 at 2:41 am I notice a big difference in your load time. I will be doing some spring cleaning in a few days as well. I have a lot of installed plugins that I dont use I need to remove and then I want and get rid of some of the plugins that slow things down. [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 21st, 2010 at 2:49 pm It’s certainly worth doing [Reply] Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell says: January 21, 2010 at 4:11 pm This is also something I’m looking forward to starting over from scratch; sorta. However, all the ones tyou removed seem kinda useful, no? Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read Blog Move Is Imminent ! I’m Looking For Launch Partners… [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 22nd, 2010 at 10:34 am The plugins weren’t that important and I can run the blog without them [Reply] Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell Reply: January 22nd, 2010 at 4:13 pm Not important for actual operation of the blog, sure, but certainly “useful” as far as visitors/readers go. OK I certainly don’t mean to sound argumentative here, lol, sorry, just an observation. Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read Blog Move Is Imminent ! I’m Looking For Launch Partners… [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 22nd, 2010 at 4:18 pm Which of the removed plugins I’ve mentioned would you say would be worth re-activating, on a readers side of the blog? Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell Reply: January 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 pm Cute profiles – a lot more noticeable then the sexy thing (at least to me), and it saved under the post for other things, like a well placed subscription box or Adsense or whatever. Plus they are really darn cute… Wibiya Toolbar – if/when this catches on, it is extremely useful. I actually hated it due to lack of understanding; then I saw the best review of it. WP Greet Box – although they screw up Google descriptions unless you tweek some things, it can provide some handy information to visitors. Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read Blog Move Is Imminent ! I’m Looking For Launch Partners… Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 23rd, 2010 at 10:20 am Thanks Dennis, I’m going to do some speed experiments and see what the differences are with these reactivated Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell Reply: January 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 pm Welcome and I hope I was helpful. I was a little worried you might think I was just a last word freak or something, lol. This may be just me, but up to now I’ve always kept space saving real estate & user ease 1st and speed a close second…however with Google now adding speed as a ranking factor, I may have to tweak even more. Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read Blog Move Is Imminent ! I’m Looking For Launch Partners… Anne Twitter: AnneOnline says: January 21, 2010 at 10:46 pm Wow! Your site is flying! I’m going to check into that Super Cache plug in and see what I can do to make mine a bit faster on the load time. That, and I probably need to ditch a few things [or move them to a page of their own]. Anne is hoping you stop by and read Live on What You Earned… Two Years Ago [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 22nd, 2010 at 10:35 am It’s a plugin that is one that is certainly worth having [Reply] Gomez Twitter: TeleGlass says: January 25, 2010 at 3:10 pm I see you have cute profiles back – love that one. The Wibiya Toolbar – I remain unconvinced. How has your experience with this tool been? Does it really add value for you? I find myself hiding it any time I visit a blog with it turned on. Gomez is hoping you stop by and read Saturday Silliness: Hamster on keyboard [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 25th, 2010 at 3:46 pm Since using Wibiya I have noticed an improvement with my bounce rate, so maybe it does help a tad, I’ll have to see how it goes over a longer period. [Reply] Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell says: January 26, 2010 at 11:29 pm @Gomez and Karen – have either of you read the review I linked to? Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read The Time Has Come. The Deal Is Done. It’s Time To Move!! [Reply] Karen Twitter: BlazingMinds Reply: January 27th, 2010 at 8:49 am I did and I found it very interesting [Reply] Dennis Edell Twitter: DennisEdell Reply: January 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm Seeeee lol, just teasin. Seriously though, I hated the friggin thing for months until I read that; I’ll be adding it eventually as well. Dennis Edell is hoping you stop by and read The Time Has Come. The Deal Is Done. It’s Time To Move!! 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