There are many ways to optimize your blog in order to speed it up.

One of the way is to optimize the MySQL database of your blog..

The reason you need to optimize the database is that over a period of time and usage, the database will be fragmented.

I have read in a couple blogs on how to optimize the blog. When I saw the commands, programming codes and lengthy steps required to optimize the database, I froze. I told myself I am not going to use those methods. I knew that all it takes is one wrong move and my blog’s database will be corrupted.

I have search around and found a useful plugin that allow optimizing your blog database safely and efficiently.

It is known as Optimize DB.
You can download it here at http://yoast.com/wordpress/optimize-db/

Installation
You just need to download the zip file from the above site.
Unzip the file
Upload the file to your blog’s plugin folder.

Usage
At the Manage Plugin screen, go to the Optimize DB plugin and select Activate.

At the Optimize DB’s plugin, select Optimize.

It will read your blog’s database and display a similar list. You just need to click on Optimize Now.

Once it finished optimizing, it will display below.

Simple isn’t ?

I hope the above article is useful to you.

Regards
Alwin Chuah

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As you add more & more articles, pictures, links to your blog or you have quite a lot of visitors to your blog, you will notice that it takes longer time to fully load all the items. Well, depending on the visitors bandwidth speed. For those that are using a slower speed bandwidth, it will take a while for your visitor to start reading the blog. Blog readers are an impatient lot. They will not wait if it takes longer than usual to fully load.

Therefore if you want to maintain goodwill with your visitors, you need to improve the access time, your visitor can start to view your blog.

That’s where WP Super Cache comes in.

This is how it works:-

In laymen term

- This plugin makes your site download much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

In technical term

-WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

When WP Super Cache is installed, html files are generated and they are served without ever invoking a single line of PHP. How fast can your site serve graphic files? That’s (almost) as fast it will be able to serve these cached files. If your site is struggling to cope with the daily number of visitors, then this plugin is for you.

You can get it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

You just need to download the files, unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Then you activate the plugin.

Go to Settings -> WP Super Cache

Tick on the “On WP cache and Super Cache enabled” & other items that are helpful for your blog. Just follow the instructions on the screen

I find that it improve my blog download speed. It works well with Internet Explorer & Firefox.
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If you do not like other people from copying content & pictures from your blog, you can copy protect it.
One of the ways I found it is easily setup & effective is to use plugin.
The plugin is known as WP-CopyProtect.

Installation
Firstly, you can download it at http://www.thechetan.com/wp-copyprotect/

Then unzip & upload it to your plugin folder

Settings
Go to Settings ->WP-Copy Protect
Tick at Disable right mouse click & Disable text selection
You can also add a message ( at the box just below the check to activate)
Then just save it.

However the disadvantage is that your reader might not be able to perform a right click on the links to open at new tab( For firefox)  or New Window ( for Internet Explorer)

In order to overcome it, you have to ensure all your links can open automatically at a new tab or new window when the reader performs a left click at the link.

You can read it from the below article

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I hope this article can improve on your blogging knowledge.

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