Another Wordpress Blog

Drat! I love the functionality of aLinks. But today, the admin panel of my blog was running so slowly, I had to break down and communicate with Dreamhost about the slowness. After some discussion with them and some fiddling at my blogs, I concluded that aLinks plugin is a hog. (Needless to say, I breathed a sigh of relief to learn the problem was not one of my plugins!)

Evidently, aLinks not a cpu hog (that’s processing) it’s a memory hog. Or at least Dreamhost tells me my problem is memory.

The memory use issue is quite bizarre because the piggish behavior only happens when you are in the admin panel- that is when you write posts, publish, turn plugins on and off etc. It does not happen when the blog loads. (This means my visitors probably noticed nothing.)

When I finally turned off the plugin, my admin panel loaded quickly. The blog always loaded quickly.

I love the functionality of the aLinks. I looked at the calls, and I suspect the program can be salvaged fairly easily by making it do what it does much less frequently. (As in: do whatever it’s doing when the blogger makes changes at aLinks itself or possibly when the blogger publishes a post rather than every time we turn on any random plugin, edit our themes etc. There is no reason aLinks needs to do anything when I make a change to my style sheet! )

Because I love the functionality of the plugin, I’ll be communicating with the plugin developer. Meanwhile, if you are using ALinks, I advise you turn aLinks off. (Sigh. . . I make good money from Amazon using the auto-linking feature of that plugin. )