chrisipeters

I spent days trying to fix this, and between a myriad of websites and posts, I managed to accomplish what I was trying to do. I’m sure there is a more elegant way of using wp_query to do it, but here’s what’s working for me.
(You can see my result on https://picturesfor.me/album-categories/weddings ).

Hopefully this helps out everyone else that is stuck in the same boat I was…

https://pastebin.com/a4q55Sqm

thanks for taking the time to reply but I don’t understand why this would make the administrator see less (properly filtered) posts than other users. I’m still rather new to custom queries, so if you could explain a bit more I’d greatly appreciate it.

I had the same issue with a flickr media library plugin. Could not get the image uploader to work at all until I disabled the plugin.

Take a quick thought as to if you have added or updated any plugins since the last time you are certain it was working correctly and start by disabling those and see if it comes back.

Hopefully its something more along the lines of your browser like @swansonphotos posted above.

using a Content Delivery Network on your website is rather like using regional warehousing for your company. Rather than having to manufacture your product, process orders, and dispatch delivery trucks all from one central location, you manufacture your product, process orders, then send the processed orders to your regional warehouses for final delivery.

As far as you are concerned, images and CDN content are all still coming from your website, just not ultimately your own server. the W3 Total cache plugin handles this all seamlessly for you, you use wordpress just like you always have, but when a visitor hits your site from the East Coast (or further away) rather than having to pull all the static data from your server on the West Coast, it comes down from one of Amazon’s regional servers.

At risk of another shameless plug, if you head to my site https://picturesfor.me, right-click and view source for one of my images, you’ll not get an address at my domain, but rather one like:
d1lf1ubfnyr7ii.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/picturesForMe_logo5.png

that image that I myself uploaded to my WordPress install is ultimately being sent to you from Cloudfront. Again, I didn’t have to do anything differently on my side, the W3 Total Cache Plugin takes care of all the synching with the CDN auto-magically.

hehe, it’s all cool. I too am using a shared hosting provider, which is why I sympathize with your pain. Since the majority of my traffic is serving static images, rather than heavy application load, a CDN is definitely the way to go to increase performance as opposed to moving up to a pricey VPS solution.

Using W3 Total Cache in conjunction with Amazon’s Cloudfront achieves 2 goals with speed:
– your static content (images etc) are now served to visitors from Amazon’s distributed servers (makes up for small pipes to your Hosting Provider)

– you are able to minify and cache your site including DB (which makes up for your host’s MySQL performance).

1 quick tip on W3 Total Cache. I have all caching options enabled, except javascript. On all the sites I’ve used it, with it on the site breaks, with it off, everything runs great.

Any time your site takes over 5 seconds to load, you will see a massive effect on visitors, which is why in my own experience, setting up a free solution that took my load times from in excess of 15 seconds to under 3 on a shared host was something that excited me enough to post about.

@songdogtech: maybe I read his post incorrectly, but from the title, and what I got from it he was asking about sluggish performance, and frequent 500 internal server errors.

Anyone running WordPress on low-price shared hosts (aka godaddy) knows and lives through the fun that is slow server performance. implementing caching and a CDN is a FREE solution that will most definitely address his concerns here…

what part of that DOESN’T have everything to do with what he posted about?

Here’s a quick 2-step exercise you can try, for my site, https://picturesfor.me it took my loading times from averaging ~15 seconds, to ~2-3.

1. Create an account with Amazon Web Services, setting up an S3 bucket, followed by cloud front. (This is FREE, and will remain so until you’re pushing far and away enough traffic to afford it)

2. Install a caching plugin, I use W3 Total Cache on all my websites, and it works wonderfully.

https://tools.pingdom.com is a great resource for monitoring the effect of your caching, and the performance increase over time.

Hope this helps!

I have also asked this question of the Theme designer for the theme I am using. I have resolved all errors with the page loading, however I still have the very strange issue where when I load this plugin, only 1 thumbnail loads on my homepage. I have no idea as of yet what is causing it, or how to resolve it.

As a followup, it appears I am receiving this error even without the SEO plugin running. I am still seeing the issue where when I activate the plugin only 1 thumbnail is displayed.