Comments on: Fighting The Wordpress Dragons

By: iphone clone

iphone clone — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:37:19 +0000

This is great information for all of us who use WP,thanks for sharing

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:43:29 +0000

It's interesting that you wrote this article a little while ago; if I had read it when you actually posted it, the timing would have been perfect! Anyway, I do NOT have a high traffic site, but am always cool with finding a way to get better performance. I learned from a friend on twitter about this wp_options deal, and I found a ton of old entries and it sped page loads up noticeably. Pretty cool. You're absolutely right, when you get rid of a plugin…it's not gone!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:56:18 +0000

Hey David,

How do you access the options table to manually go in and delete entries? I am not sure how to do it.

Thanks in advance!

-Adam

By: joebwharton

joebwharton — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:06 +0000

This is great information for all of us who use WP. Some of the plugins mentioned in the comments are on my list to check out. Thanks for the info.

By: Chris @ Driving Spirit

Chris @ Driving Spirit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:14 +0000

An extremely useful post and some insightful comments too. It's a shame more plugins don't include an option to remove themselves completely from the database. I'm off to look at my wp-options table now.

By: imegent78

imegent78 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:16:19 +0000

Waiting for another phenomenal post… It’d be nice to see some content worth reading (your blog is awesome!) since most of them are getting crappy these days.

By: storesonline

storesonline — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:22:19 +0000

yeah web is moving forward a lot. we need to make our move quickly and learn the latest things.

By: David Risley

David Risley — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:57:04 +0000

Yeah. first of all, you can turn that off by putting the following line of code into your wp-config.php file:

define ('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);

Secondly, I think the WP-Optimize plug-in has ability to remove all post revisions that already exist.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize/

By: David Risley

David Risley — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:54:52 +0000

There is no answer for this. Its just a matter of maintaining Wordpress and optimizing your server. It isn't something you're going to have a really hard time with unless you have a high-traffic blog. And, by that point, chances are you'll know some people in the field who you can turn to. Often, just posting on Twitter for help will get you many volunteers.

By: David Risley

David Risley — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:53:00 +0000

I don't think my needs are yet high enough for a CDN, but the thought has crossed my mind.