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By: Jordan Mederich

Jordan Mederich — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:21:35 +0000

This resource is AWESOME!

I’m having some site speed problems at my site, sermongear.com. I’m running WP Multisite, and I’ve tried multiple caching plugins (quick cache has been the best so far), and tried limiting revisions, etc.

I have quite a few plugins for membership, and aesthetics, all of which are pretty integral to the site. I’m hosting with Bluehost.

Any ideas on how to improve the site speed? I’m currently getting rated “C” and “D” from gtmetrix.com… not good.

Would appreciate any help you can offer!
Thanks Mark,
Jordan

By: Constance

Constance — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:27:39 +0000

WOW Mark! That was fast – and you were right! It was the permalink – I went into edit mode and saw four unusual numbers. I just deleted the numbers and re-published. Now it works great!

Thank you for your awesome FREE help! I really appreciate it – may God bless you as you have blessed me!

Constance

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:04:52 +0000

@Constance – Can you open it and see it in the editor? If so, I would copy that content from the existing post and go ahead and create a new one, pasting in that content. If that post works fine when you Publish it, you’re all set. You can delete the first post. You might want to check the Permalink to see if that is unusually long. (Click to see the Permalink Edit button.)

Does your post have a very long title, or does it have any strange characters in it? Especially if you pasted it in from Microsoft Word or something like that – it may have strange characters, even something you can’t see that looks like a space. Sometimes WordPress does not know what to do with those.

When you create a second post, be sure to type in the title by hand. A page title or permalink with strange characters in it is the first thing I can think of that would cause a post to go missing.

If you edit the Permalink, be sure not to leave any spaces in it. The Permalink should be letters, numbers and dashes only.

By: Constance

Constance — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:47:59 +0000

Hi,

This morning when I finished my post, I published as usual and clicked “view post”, but I got a message, “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?” and saying that it cannot find what I’m looking for. I can go to my home page and click on the new post from there and view it fine, but it won’t just pop up as my newest post for the day. Help! Thank you,

Constance

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:20:46 +0000

@Amy – If you want to stick with the Bouquet theme, you’ll need to modify the theme files to change things like that (like where the ‘metadata’ – date, author, etc. – shows up in relation to posts). You ability to do so will depend on your level of skill working with HTML, CSS and PHP files. Here’s one good place to start: http://www.presscoders.com/wordpress-theme-customization-guide/ You can also do a search for “customize wordpress themes”.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:14:47 +0000

I am in the process of moving my blog content from blogspot to wordpress and would like to get as many of the bugs out before I “go live” with it. I am useing the WordPress Theme ‘Bouquet’ and on my home page you can not see the date to the left laft sid of the post. I don’t see anywjhere that I can either move the position of the date or narrow the colum size. Any way to fix this ?

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:32:04 +0000

@vees avs - For that, you may need to use FTP. Your hosting provider can help you get that set up. Upload files using FTP to a directory of your choice, like /games/ or /downloads/ and then use the filename to create a URL for the file, like /games/myfirstgame.exe Your web hosting company might have restrictions on what kinds of files you can upload and link to, so check with them first.

By: vees avs

vees avs — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:43:03 +0000

Help me ,i want to upload games,application to people downloads,how to accomplish it ,is there be any plugin for it?or how?[i am using wordpress]

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:44:04 +0000

@Glenn – Sounds like you are on the right track in testing different themes. You could also start by deactivating your plugins one by one, saving new widget content, logging out to see if that has any effect. You may not want to do this on a live site. Similarly, you can test different themes to see if that problem happens on every one. Does it happen with Twenty Twelve or Twenty Eleven themes – the default themes? My guess is that it will not. But there must be a conflict between plugins, theme and the core code for widgets somewhere.

You can also create a separate installation of WordPress and test theses things there so that you don’t risk screwing up your live site.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:29:59 +0000

Hi. Yes, I am clicking save. The sidebars contain the information. I sign out of the administrative panel. Then when I go back later and sign-in again, the widgets and sidebars contain almost nothing. (I do have other websites, ex. http://www.glennishere..com in which there are no widget problems.) The problem started when I switched to a different theme for http://www.jewishcoolstuff.com from the one I was using. Then I switched back to the earlier theme where widgets have been fine. But, still the problem persists. I have now switched to a new theme (current one) hoping that the problem would subside; it hasn’t.
Thanks.