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Bad Query! Sit Query, Sit! Good Query

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been walking on a very thin sheet of ice. WordPress 2.7 came out and life was wonderful, plugins were getting updated almost daily and things seemed to be just fine. Then out of no where I found a twisted up wrench on the ground, and wouldn’t you know it all the gears to the blogs were sitting right next to it.

Sabotage!!! Some hates me,,, No actually somewhere in the midst of all the updates one of the plugins came back just a little more beefed up than I expected.

Gigpress is pretty awesome plugin with some great options and great widgets. It’s fairly easy to manipulate and the php is easy to understand if you want to mess with the guts. But!!! Gigpress does a lot of work so it comes with a lot of queries, usually not a problem, but the latest version mixed with the Bluehost server didn’t cut it.

Here me out though, Gigpress isn’t all bad. Due to some unfortunate events I moved one of my projects to Dreamhost in hopes of finding some other solutions to my problem. (I’ve been looking for a good reason to check out Dreamhost for a long time, I guess I got my wish.) I did quite a few test and found that regardless of 20+ queries that Gigpress asks for Dreamhost served it up 54 queries in 0.462 seconds, not bad. Bluehost was serving 54 queries in 2.542 seconds… Ouch!!!

So what did I do? I found a different plugin. Might I recommend Gigs Calendar. I stayed away from it for a long time because it’s admin is said to only work with Firefox and Safari. So be sure to read the Other Notes on the plugin from the WP Plugin Directory.

Take my advise, don’t over look your query load just because you’re not seeing a problem… it will come back to bite you…

Try these functions in the footer of your theme, if there not already there.
echo get_num_queries();
timer_stop(1);

I’ve been using these for ever, but I’ve never appreciated them more than I do now

Coming Up 2009

It’s December already and wouldn’t you know it, 2009 is right around the corner. So what’s in store for the New Year? Lots of things!!! I’ve got big plans for 2009, most of them are unknown, but if 09 is another year of Growth and Networking like 08 was I expect good things.

2008 has been such a good year for my work that I’ve decided to start a small personal business. My plan is to [...] Read More

Using the blank.gif

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with IE6 and why do I even care. Then I remember that literally millions of people out there are just too ignorant, and don’t even realize that IE is not the only option. I’ve got to hand it to Microsoft they cornered the market at a great time, and now millions of people suffer everyday.

So here is a little trick I came up with. (then again, this has [...] Read More

A Bad Day for the Web

So where do you go when your Internet takes a crap and you really need to make some emails or work on a site that needs a good FTP Connection. Well, if you’re in Franklin, Tn you go to Merridees or Maxximo Jo’s. So here I am and wouldn’t you know it, the site I need access to is doing some re-configuring and I can’t connect to it via FTP.

I suppose you can call it [...] Read More

Do You Want a Job?

Lately I’ve been doing way to much work and I’ve got people coming at me from all sides. All this means is that I’ve had more offers than I can handle and some offers I just don’t want to handle. [...] Read More

Speak or Not to Speak

Today Brody and I drove to Memphis to have a meeting where we said our little speal and in the end everyone was the same page. Although we had our moments… [...] Read More

Some Thank You Cards

There are a lot “Thank You” cards that I would like to send out, but I’m horrible at sending things in the mail. In the mean time here are a few people I’d like to point out and say thank you to. [...] Read More

Meeting with Outdoor Encounter

I just got back from a great meeting with Ben and Rebecca Wynd. Rebecca is the Director of Outdoor Encounter, and is heading up a project to secure over a 100 acres for a Community Rec. Park in Spring Hill, TN. [...] Read More

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