BEYOND FRUSTRATED
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I just made the switch from Blogger to WordPress and I am KICKING myself right now. I have spent the past three hours trying to 1. change my theme and 2. change my categories. In three hours WordPress has reloaded itself in HTML no fewer than 22 times. It has frozen half a dozen times. It took me an hour to load a header photo. And when I turn to “24/7 Support” the support turns out to be a list of not so very helpful topics.
Maybe I couldn’t have a horizontal menu in Blogger but my God, I would be in bed and asleep already feeling like I had accomplished something. Instead I’m looking at alienating my readers further by switching back, or spending, what would be adequate? 12 hours? 20? tomorrow trying to do simple, administrative things.
I’ve been periodically checking my internet connection, and it can load other rich websites, no problem. So that isn’t the issue.
Anybody have any ideas before I throw my computer at the wall?
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First thing I’m going to suggest is that you log out of wordpress, clear your browser cache and cookies and restart your browser and then log back in.
Some suggestions on the slow loading of the site and such:
Since many of your posts have many photos in them (tons in some cases), in the dashboard go to settings > reading and set your blog to display perhaps 3 posts per page maximum.
Second thing I would do is on posts that have tons of images, such as the “let’s take a walk” post, open it in the editor and put a read more tag after a few of the images so that the main page will load faster. People can then click on the read more/continue reading link and get to the rest of the post and the images.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
According to a run at pingdom.com, your main page takes way in excess of 30 seconds to load. Your main page is actually above the maximum size for a pindom.com test, so it quit before the page actually completely loaded. Since the search engines consider page load times when calculating search engine ranking, this is not a good thing.
Next, and this is for going forward considering use a lot of images, you should optimize your images so that they are under 75k in file size, and I might even suggest 50k since you use so many images. Again, this helps page loading times and keeps you on the good side of the search engines.
Let’s start with the above and see where we get.
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~~TSP
As Blogger runs on deprecated code perhaps we need to add this too.@sarahlizp
Go to settings > Writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click “Save Changes.” -
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If you are having so much trouble with basic things, it’s probably because you are expecting it to function like Blogger. The differences aren’t apparent at first, but yes, they will get in your way.
It won’t take you long to get this, but it’s worth your while to look at the basic intro tools, like http://learn.wordpress.com. Yes, it’s really basic, but it’ll show you how WordPress “thinks” and maybe make things easier for you.
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TSP said: Since many of your posts have many photos in them (tons in some cases), in the dashboard go to settings > reading and set your blog to display perhaps 3 posts per page maximum.
Second thing I would do is on posts that have tons of images, such as the “let’s take a walk” post, open it in the editor and put a read more tag …
What I did (with success) was to use the next page tag, since in my posts–well, my site really–I also have a ton of images. In fact now that I know about this tag, I want to go back and rearrange some things in order to use this tag to its best advantage. I’m very happy with it! I’m a dialup user so I need all the help I can get, lol. So far my pages have been loading OK even on dialup. However, TSP makes some great points above that I also need to bear in mind.
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Addendum: My blog is a photo blog with very little text, so maybe that’s why WP has been more forgiving towards me…..heh
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