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6 things to remember when moving WordPress blogs to a different host

| July 8, 2008 | 34 Comments
I recently had to move all my WordPress sites and blogs to a new server because Bluehost sucks. My sites were going down on a near-daily basis for way too long, and they couldn't care less. So I did what I really did not want to do, and moved six WordPress sites to a ... View Post

38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog

| April 23, 2008 | 70 Comments
WordPress blogs and sites can be notoriously slow. But fear not - here are ways to make your WordPress blog super speedy and fun for your visitors to view with a few tweaks, hacks and plugins. Be sure to check back because I will be updating this post as I discover new and wonderful ... View Post

WordPress upgrade nightmare and lessons learned

| January 31, 2008 | 8 Comments
I just spent five hours trying to save WordPress Garage and another site of mine, but some of the damage is irrevocable. Here's the story of this nightmare, and what I've learned: I have a site that was running on WordPress version 2.2. I hadn't bothered to upgrade since we had stopped publishing on it ... View Post

Transferring Simple Tagging tags into another WordPress blog

| October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
I recently had to migrate an entire blog from one installation to another. WordPress does have an export function, and there are many database backup plugins and managers, but these really only work well with a basic installation that doesn't use any plugins that created tables. So, in my case, I couldn't ... View Post