{"id":4301,"date":"2018-08-07T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:24:25","slug":"wordpress-post-page-updates-revisions-slow-your-site-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Post\/Page Updates\/Revisions slow your site down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went along to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress-Wellington\/events\/252857810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>August WordPress meetup: Maintaining and updating 80+ WordPress Sites<\/strong><\/a> talk that was very interesting. The main plugin\/tool that was used was <a href=\"https:\/\/managewp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Manage WP<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Peter Williamson, the presenter, used the paid add-ins to do the maintenance. I have played with the free version that I found a bit limited. Still, that is the way of free versions, they stop from being useful in the free area and you need to pay for add-ins to actually make the tools useful.<\/p>\n<p>Peter strongly recommended that you keep your sites WP version and Plug-ins as up to date as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There was a discussion about image size manager plugins and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/tiny-compress-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Compress JPEG &amp; PNG images<\/strong><\/a> was recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Peter recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/thrivethemes.com\/architect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Thrive Content Builder<\/strong> <\/a>but its a paid tool and I do not do enough website building to look at paying for it.<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress Revisions\/Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Peter made a comment about Updates being one of the big issues that slow down sites. I was not aware of that and I asked him about it. Apparently WordPress saves the updates to the database.<\/p>\n<p>I am absolutely terrible about Updates. I write a post, then think about it and edit it a lot, saving, updating then going back in and re-editing again.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed my Blog site slowing down quite a lot recently. I put this down to the number and size of images on the site and had used an image manager to do something about that but it still was slow. I have over 125 posts now. But apparently one issue is Updates. Peter uses the Manage WP to clean these up.<\/p>\n<p>I looked on the interwongle and found these posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/woorkup.com\/disable-limit-wordpress-post-revisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to disable and limit wordpress revisions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/woorkup.com\/delete-old-wordpress-revisions-db\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to delete old wordpress revisions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I followed the posts processes and installed a plugin WP-Optimize<\/p>\n<p>After running the WP-Optimize\u00a0 on my Blog site, I found I had over 1,600 revisions sitting in the Database.<\/p>\n<p>After running the optimiser I reduced the database by 19Mb to just 16.5 Mb.<\/p>\n<p>A dramatic drop in the database size.<\/p>\n<p>I ran this on my other 2 sites, Apriori &amp; Pir2, both mainly pages (not posts) and there was still a marked reduction in database sizes, so worth doing.<\/p>\n<p>thank you Peter for your advice.<\/p>\n<h2>Updraft Plus Backup<\/h2>\n<p>I am a bit relaxed about backups but I thought I&#8217;d better revisit that after going to the meeting.I revisited my free Manage WP and that was already set up on a monthly basis. I wanted to update my blog today and it wanted to charge me. So I left it and looked for another plugin.<\/p>\n<p>I had tried Updraft Pus before that had free options but then there were loads of paid extras. It sort of turned me off. I decided to put it back on to a couple of my sites. I&#8217;d been playing with my WD-MyCloud and realised that I could link via FTP (prior to that I was cabling via a computer. I just store a few videos and backups on it. Anyway, I found my VPS was not setup to transfer to the MyCloud backup, but did find that I could backup my WordPress sites to an AWS S3 account, A MS OneDrive or Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little wary of the AWS free service, I constantly get caught with little bills, so I thought I&#8217;d try The MS OneDrive and Google Drive.\u00a0 I did not have success with the OneDrive (you had to add something in to make it work, I thought this was a premium add-in so didn&#8217;t do it), but have all my Sites now backing up to a couple of Google Drives (you have 15GB free space on a google account). And I have weekly &amp; monthly scheduled backups to those.<\/p>\n<p>I actually found the process quite easy to setup. The only concern is it drops them all in the same folder and 2 of the sites have similar names. So I&#8217;m making sub directories in the main folder for each.<\/p>\n<h2>Why WordPress?<\/h2>\n<p>Its worth mentioning here why I use WordPress. I have tried to use Drupal, Joomla &amp; Silverstripe. All good platforms. But all requiring an awful lot of learning to get up and running in a proficient way with them all. I&#8217;ve also taken templates and done the straight HTML, CSS &amp; JavaScript coding using Bootstrap and other libraries.<\/p>\n<p>My focus is on content. A story:<\/p>\n<p>A friend I worked with started with CAD\u00a0 (Computer Aided Draughting) before me (we were both draughtsmen).\u00a0 I asked him, how did he find CAD? His answer was, when you draw a line on a drawing board, your body draws the line, there is no barrier between thought and action, whereas in CAD you mentally want to draw a line, so you then have to think &#8220;L&#8221; for line [Enter] (type Keyboard), from [@ click mouse at point] to [click mouse at point]. He said the computer got in the way of the natural process of mental thought to physical hand action of drawing.<\/p>\n<p>This is WordPress. It is easier to focus on content rather than focus on process of creating content.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t do something you want, then look for a plugin for it. Because it is a popular CMS (Content Management System) there are a lot of plug-ins out there from people who were trying to solve a problem that WordPress Out of the Box doesn&#8217;t do, and they share them with others. And there are lots. If you look on the SilverStripe or Drupal sites, there are not as many plug-ins.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the free plugins are not up to date and maybe are not coded that well, but some of them do the job.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a lot of articles\/videos about &#8220;How to&#8230;&#8230;&#8221; for WordPress. True, there are a lot of articles that try and persuade you to buy their superior &#8220;PAID Plugins&#8221;\u00a0 (also without declaring their interest in the products) but there are usually a lot of Free plugins that you can try to get a feel for what works for you, and if only a paid equivalent does the job, at least you have been able to explore the alternatives. Other platforms are not as versatile or extensive in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>So, WordPress\u00a0 lets me focus on my content. It gives me alternative as to how I want to express that content. I have a blog site where I have posts where I test processes out. I also have &#8216;Demo&#8221; sites where I display &#8220;ideas&#8221; and &#8220;solutions&#8221; that I demonstrate and people can explore. I also have a couple of photography sites and also a Resume\/CV site too. I have also explored building an E-commerce site as an exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I find , with WordPress, I can explore , break, rebuild and break again. It is a versatile platform with an awful lot of plug-ins and themes. My main interest is on exploring content rather than managing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, SQL Query , Servers, Domains, WebHosts etc. You have to have an understanding of these things, but you can start with a minimal understanding and still get some good content out on the web, and there are a lot of helping hands to make that happen in resources on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went along to August WordPress meetup: Maintaining and updating 80+ WordPress Sites talk that was very interesting. The main plugin\/tool that was used was Manage WP.\u00a0 Peter Williamson, the presenter, used the paid add-ins to do the maintenance. I have played with the free version that I found a bit limited. 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