Due to a 6-year-old database (dinosaur by blogging’s standard) which was subjected to hundreds of plugins and optional component installs and uninstalls, plug various other caching and theme components whose developers thought it best to write their preferences in the database and neglected to remove those entries on uninstallation, the site’s database got to be a huge 310MB in size! Being fat, I can tell you, is not a good idea at the best of times.
I’ve just installed a fantastic WordPress plug-in that conditionally displays ads, the conditions are set by the webmaster of course – it is that flexible and more. I won’t bore you with the technical details, suffice it to say that if you are registered and logged-in, no ad will be displayed to you, unless you …