Optimizing the MySQL database for WordPress

Have you ever been wondering about the database underneath WordPress? Lately I have had the issues that my Wordpress seems to have become very slow. I started to check out my active plugins on my blog that I don’t need any more and that might speed things up a bit. Like always before I start on thing like that I made a complete backup of my blog (MySQL database and files).

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What is new in the WordPress 3.5.2 Release

Yesterday June 21, 2013 WordPress 3.5.2 was released for public download. This updated is a minor maintenance update fixing 12 bugs in WordPress 3.5 and 3.5.1. It is mainly a security release and you should not wait too long to upgrade your blog. In fact the WordPress team “strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately”. The update includes 7 security fixes that you don’t want to miss.

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How to Fix Sharebar Plugin issue after upgrading to WordPress 3.5

  I had an issue with the Sharebar plugin today after I upgraded this blog to WordPress version 3.5. As always when making major WordPress upgrade on my blog I had made a backup of my files and database. This issue was not that big that my blog became inaccessible, but it was still annoying. I went for the Sharebar page at WordPress.org to look for an update to the plugin, but no luck 🙁 I decided to disable the plugin and started to look for others with the same problem. It was actually not that…

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Why don’t you mention yourself on Twitter?

I see it all the time. I visit a blog, find something interesting that I want to share with my followers. I click on the Twitter or Buffer button and then I see it or actually I don’t see it..! The owner of the blog have installed Sharebar, Buffer or other share buttons, has a lot of followers, a lot of reTweets but no Twitter handle in the tweet, that I am about to post. Why is that? I see it a lot and not just on newbie bloggers that has…

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