Comments on: How To Clean WP Options – Slow MySQL Queries

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:43:31 +0000

Hey Revellian, how did you end up fixing it? I’m currently running into the same issue with bluehost! grrrrr….

By: Revellian

Revellian — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:48:46 +0000

@ Leigh: And I definetly screwed some things up! My recommendation is, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:07:07 +0000

How right you are (about screwing things up)! I think it takes everyone learning from experience though!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:00:25 +0000

@Debbie: My site is FIXED!!!!!!!

@Mark: Thanks! Be careful as hell when doing any cleaning, it’s easy to screw things up!

By: Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com

Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:42:33 +0000

Nicely done, Bobby. Very informative. I’m embarrassed to say it, but I, too, have accumulated quite a few tables I no longer use. 38 on just one blog. Yikes! Looks like I’m going to be cleaning house pretty soon, perhaps right after (or before) I upgrade to the latest version of WP.

By: Debbie Dolphin

Debbie Dolphin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:11:21 +0000

If my host gave me this much trouble, I would switch to a free WordPress Blog.

Come to think of it, my New England Lighthouse Treasures blog is backed up to a private free WordPress Blog.

Maybe, backing up your blog at the free WordPress.com might benefit you?

P.S. I posted your Magic Lamp Techno Tag.

By: Revellian

Revellian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:45:36 +0000

Be careful Madhur! I probably deleted some orphan files that may cause me even more problems. I want to hire someone who knows a lot about mysql. When deleting those rss files, they are supposed to be deleted in pairs…the original, and a matching one with the time stamp.

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:40:04 +0000

Nice post Buddy. I am going to check my tables right away and see how many extra ones are there.

By: Revellian

Revellian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:38:58 +0000

Hi Teeni, I can’t even use any of my back up because they are corrupted. Any new backups I make are corrupted too, so I can’t move to another host even if I wanted to right now. I am so frustrated I can’t stand to deal with it right now.

By: teeni

teeni — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:10 +0000

I hope it doesn’t end up having to cost you money, Bobby. I can’t pretend to understand all that is going on there at your blog and host but I think I so far am spared from having to know this technical stuff because my hoster handles all the database stuff and I never see it.

It does appear to me that many applications tend to leave orphaned things that “pollute” our computing experiences though. I think we should institute a couple of holidays, maybe once every six months or so where we set aside time for cleaning up this kind of mess on our computers and applications. Maybe get more people to do backups too (myself included, of course as soon as I know how)!