WordPress Issues: Slow Loading Pages

Posted on October 19th, 2007 in Personal by Vegan Momma

Alright Vegan Momma has taken a long time to load today.  I timed it at about one minute a few of my readers emailed me saying they were having trouble accessing my page.  Does anyone know of a program that I can use that could detect what could be causing this?  I contacted my hosting provider this morning and after a few emails everything seems to be resolved but I’m thinking perhaps it is a WordPress Plug in that I installed recently that might be causing the issue.

The interesting thing is this website was the only one that was affected.  The other websites that sit on the sever were fine.  Which is why I’m*thinking* it might be something on the blog that is causing the problem.

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Overcoming Obstacles: Turning I Can’t Into I Can

Posted on October 19th, 2007 in Blogging Tips, Personal by Vegan Momma

My daughter

My daughter, Aiyana, teaching our ferret Kali how to “walk”

At times, I need to follow my own advice take for instance my fuzzbutts website Ferrets Haven when I moved it to another server a few months ago I forgot to transfer the picture files which meant all my files were lost. Thankfully I have then on an external hard drive I just need to upload them again. However instead of looking how I could tackle it piece by piece I looked at the whole project and was overwhelmed.

The only thing I could see was the amount of work/hours that this was going to take.  I had over a years worth of pictures! Why am I even going to try and do this? I thought! That’s a lot of pictures! It’s going to take me forever to complete!  That wasn’t true I just needed to change the method in how I tackled this challenge.

Setting Realistic Goals

A few week ago I decided that I had felt sorry for my “sad state” of affairs and I needed to get off my butt and do something about it. How did I