Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – WordPress Annoying Bugs
WordPress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. WordPress 2.9 failed cron jobs and missed schedules are one such bug. Continue Reading →
Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu
Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among the worst of the search engines, hammering Continue Reading →
GWT’s Parameter Handling : Duplicate Content in Drupal & Gallery2
A while back Google announced the addition of parameter handling to the Google Webmasters Tools (GWT). We're happy to announce another feature to assist with managing duplicate content: parameter handling. Parameter handling allows you to view which parameters Continue Reading →
Top SEO & Speed WordPress Plugins To Boost Off 2010
Looking for some WordPress plugin recommendations to kick off 2010 with more SEO & Speed? I got some for you. Around the beginning of 2010 I saw an explosion of lists with various recommended WordPress plugins : Best 16 WordPress Plugins For 2010 The 15 Best Continue Reading →
Drupal Stuck Cron Jobs : MySQL server has gone away
Some things in Drupal are a pain in the ass to debug. Hanging cron jobs that never seem to end are one of those things. Strange messages start appearing like… Cron has been running for over an hour and is probably stuck. or Attempting to restart Cron That usually Continue Reading →
Faster Firefox : Controlling Memory & Leakage
I use Firefox, most of those I know use Firefox, but the problem with Firefox speed and memory consumption is well documented and debated. It’s very frustrating how heavy and slow Firefox gets with a few small plugins and a couple of tabs and windows opened. Continue Reading →