Spent a good part of the early morning hours going through things here on Mephistos doing some cleaning up and it made me realize a few things. The kinds of things I was cleaning up was primarily links to other sites and almost all of the things I realized had to relate to just that. Clearly it is not something I had done in a while, as a few of the blogs I was linked to(aside from my own) had completely died, not having had a single post in all of 2011, others had completely changed the focus or were not even a blog any more, and yet others had resurfaced that I had removed some time before. A clean up of links and review of plugins and processes was clearly in order.
All I can really say about this awesome little PHP tool is just how much I wish I had a known you sooner. I recall the last time I moved WordPress sites around in mass from one server to another. Fortunately at that time I was only really working with two sites that had really large databases and in the end at that time I just did some cutting up myself in smaller sections of SQL stuff in order to get them to run in both a time and memory space that the server would allow. As I am preparing to that again with some of my stuff and even more importantly on a large-scale with some sites at work I needed to find something else. Enter stage left, BigDump.
I started the process of finally converting over to a less customized theme by first just looking to see what was out there and what features I did want include. In the end I decided on a really simple theme that has very few custom options which needless to say has very little impact on the load time, especially in regards to database connections and calls for data. I did settle on pretty simple them called PressPlay and after my few slight modifications, that is indeed what you currently see running on the site today.
IntenseDebate vs. Disqus
By Ray on November 22nd, 2011
Realize that a few months ago I gave Disqus a trial run based on something I had read about it pulling in comments from other sources. However, that particular function seemed to work sporadically at best and so after a few days of testing I rolled it back. However, without much brain power having been spent, it is clear the comments increased during that short-lived attempt. So, now I come back asking if I were to consider a return to such a community/comment building system – which is the better option – Disqus or the very popular IntenseDebate?