WordPress 2.1 And UTW Database Issues

January 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I don’t know if the problem was caused by upgrading to WordPress 2.1 or by UTW, but my mysql database went mental last night when I tried to edit a post. At first I got UTW tag errors, and then the whole site just died.

Ajay has been running a thread about UTW and WordPress 2.1 issues. I initially decided that until someone confirms that UTW is safe to run with WordPress 2.1 I was going to disable it. But then after checking my stats I decided I can live without UTW permanently.

My Google Analytics StatsUnder 1% of my traffic comes from Technorati, who ‘rely’ on my UTW tags. Given that UTW is the main reason why my pages were loading slowly, and also now because of the potential incompatibility issues I’ve decided to disable UTW permanently.

I’d rather lose that 1% of traffic and give a better user experience to the other 99% of users, as well as reducing the risk that the site will go down again. In fact, I probably lost more traffic in the last 12 hours than Technorati sent to me all of last year!

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.

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  1. #14

    Pingback by Great New Plugin - Simple Tagging | Connected Internet on 8 February 2007:

    [...] removed UTW a few weeks ago as it was killing my server and causing issues with WordPress 2.1. I thought I could live without [...]

  2. #13

    Comment by Enblogopedia on 31 January 2007:

    Yes Everton this is a reason ofcourse!
    But Also I got links from my theme in PR5 :D
    Which I believe helped me a lot.

    BUT the main reason is the Themes page in JohnTP blog it was with PR6! (NOW it`s PR7!!)

    By the way you should submit your Theme there!! ;)

  3. #12

    Comment by Everton on 31 January 2007:

    I will do Ajay at the weekend. I’m just loving the difference turning off UTW has made to my page loading speeds. It’s amazing isn’t it? We knew it was one of the problems but couldn’t work out why

  4. #11

    Comment by Ajay on 31 January 2007:

    EB, why not try and check out Jerome’s Keywords, which is a good replacement for UTW. There is also another alternative, can’t remember the name.

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