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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "'rel' tag while adding a link in visual editor mode"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:39:21 +0000

Not as many people need rel nofollow, since they're actually TRYING to spread link power for SEO :)

saurav.rox on "'rel' tag while adding a link in visual editor mode"

saurav.rox — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:44:07 +0000

There are plugins but does it make sense to have plugins for this purpose? The editor already provides option for "target" attribute so why not for "rel"? Adding extra plugin for this sort of simple task can be confusing for layman or normal users.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "'rel' tag while adding a link in visual editor mode"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:54:57 +0000

There are plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/nofollow/ that can help you do that.

saurav.rox on "'rel' tag while adding a link in visual editor mode"

saurav.rox — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:39:39 +0000

I think it would be easier as well as good if user would be able to add 'rel' value while adding a link in editor. It can be handy from the eye of SEO. So, all in all my proposal is to add 'rel' option while adding link in WordPress editor.

Then link then would appear as:
<a href="https://google.com" rel="nofollow">google</a>

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Wp-cron optimization needed to reduce resources"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Tue, 23 May 2017 20:02:18 +0000

You can use alternate cron - https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Alternative_Cron - and schedule it manually via real cron, but yes. wp-cron is a poor mans' cron :(

on "Wp-cron optimization needed to reduce resources"

Sun, 21 May 2017 21:36:42 +0000

I think it is necessary and priority to optimize wp-cron. By how it works, in some places, especially shared hosting, the consumption and recurrence of wp-cron is often abusive and destabilizing.

If you have several WordPress installed, also in VPS and dedicated installations, irregularities can be noticed before a traffic peak. Although this is not excessive, performance is always significantly affected by running wp-cron.

TIP: With a simple check you can change the frequency of wp-cron to 3hs, 6hs and even 1 time a day.

Although many functions of WordPress necessarily depend on cron, for most sites, especially the little updated and even static, it is unnecessary so much recurrence and query generation or wp-cron activity.

The consumption of resources, for example, when activating cron jobs from cpanel or using other tools, is remarkable. I've tried it on 10 sites of all kinds, size, consumption and different hosting, and the difference is measurable.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Missed Schedule Post Retry"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:19:46 +0000

One thing that could be the problem is that WP will update the post as failed if a user visited the site after the scheduled date but before the cronjob.

That shouldn't happen since you disabled WP cron (which is what checks to do that). Is something else forcing cron to happen, I wonder...

Jory Hogeveen on "Missed Schedule Post Retry"

Jory Hogeveen — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:21:02 +0000

@maxgx

i'm really sorry for having hurt your feelings!

Hahaha no worries ;-)

do you think i'd better keep them to myself next time?

Definitely not! I just got the impression that you was frustrated and wanted to "shout out". That is not very helpfull when the issue is already known. Anyhow, my bad!

@Ipstenu
I wanted to get back to you on the cron job part since I never did (sorry).
Adding ?doing_wp_cron doesn't help. I'll continue my search when I have the time and report back here.
One thing that could be the problem is that WP will update the post as failed if a user visited the site after the scheduled date but before the cronjob.

maxgx on "Missed Schedule Post Retry"

maxgx — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:57:39 +0000

many thanks @Ipstenu for shedding light on the searching of old plugins issue.

having read further on the cron issue, i do realise now it's not going to get a universal solution.

i do think though that users could at least be given a choice to have WP retry the task of publishing missed programmed jobs.

@Jory Hogeveen
i'm really sorry for having hurt your feelings! i didn't mean to shout out any deep frustration with my post, nor i was after any major priority.

it wasn't easy to fix (took a lot of reading up and testing) and i don't think it's an optimal solution yet. i just thought it was good to share my experience with others, do you think i'd better keep them to myself next time?

also thanks for the "give something back" tip, though i must say it's exactly what i've been trying to do so far whenever i feel i can sensibly contribute to the "cause". fixing core things, unfortunately, is out of my reach.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Missed Schedule Post Retry"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:01:12 +0000

Plugins that are over two years without updates are excluded from searches. In order to be re included, they just need to update their readmes to say they're compatible with the latest WP. Can't make 'em do it, but we do try.

Sadly it's not something 'easy' to fix. The plugin you've found out has a delay, and thats really the ultimate pain point. It's hard to have a PHP app schedule things without running into server issues :(