Think before you delete
Hello everybody, here is my monthly post
photographing the world
Sorry, I missed August
Actually I missed writing my Wealthy Affiliate August post but that was not because I was on holiday, no, I was facelifting my websites plus repairing a stupid mistake I made.
Be careful when deleting photos
In my effort to make my websites load faster I was screening my media file to see if I could delete some photos. Especially the private photos which are "heavy".
I took special care to not delete anything from my published posts and pages. I did not know though that one should not delete photos which had been used on Wealthy Affiliate posts, be it private photos or Pixabay.
I deleted those photos and had a sad surprise when I discovered my Wealthy Affiliate posts had big gaps where the photos used to be. It was quite a job to find them again, download them, put them again on the media file to then publish on the Wealthy Affiliate posts. It took up quite some time to get it all organized.
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Do not lose your likes
I nearly made a second bad mistake but avoided it at the last moment as I put up a question. Time ago I put a Pinterest code at the top of each post. Only some months ago I added a simple plugin for social media as I had started with Facebook. I started seeing likes here and there so that was nice.
I was told that this Pinterest code slows down the speed of your website so I tried to find an alternative. First I thought of installing a new plugin which has Pinterest included but that would mean deleting the one I had. Would I lose all the likes or would they automatically be transferred to the new plugin?
Better ask a question
Having asked the question I was told to be careful as it was not sure that the received likes would be transferred to the new plugin. That is why I opted to keep the old social media plugin and install a new Pinterest plugin. This is an individual little plugin which also shows numbers.
Now, slowly but surely I have to delete the Pinterest code, post by post, from my websites, really a big job and not done in one day. Anyhow, this is my story. Before you delete anything you must know what will happen.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
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Always a pleasure reading with you my dear Taetske. Think before deleting makes a lot of sense.
Thank you for this piece of useful advive.
All the best,
Maxine
Good Morning Maxine,
Having a website can sometimes be rather delicate. One click and things might happen you did not intend. Some stressful situation can develope which then takes a lot of work to put it straight again.
Anyhow, I am happy that it got solved but it was a real mess.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Great advice. Thanks. It will make me be careful about the photos I choose and my plugins to links.
Nice blog.
Lily š
Good Morning Lily,
There are so many social media plugins to chose from it is not easy. I thought as I had the Pinterest code already I did not need it as a plugin. Then to find out this code slows the speed of your website is not funny, especially when this is the recommended code of Pinterest to put on your site.
Learning never stops when having a website.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Wow! I was thinking of this recently and held off. Glad I did. Looking through questions and posts we see answers to what we are thinking every day. This shows how important being a member here vs going along and suffering through with no way to get answers or ask questions.
Appreciate the tips and info.
Good evening William,
Thank you for your visit. I am happy to hear you did not do it as I can tell you it was a bore to have to redo everything.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
It takes enough time to do updates to the sites and write content. Don't want to add to it! Take care
Where should we save the photos. I created a separate album in my photo library. But eventually the files will be too large to keep.
Good afternoon Franca,
The photos I was talking about are the ones you have downloaded on the media file of your website. If you download many photos in a "heavy" way it can slow the speed of your website. Normally private photos can be "heavy" and as I use a lot of them for my posts and the WA posts I thought a clean up would help speed.
The WA posts Beautiful Spring Flowers and Wonderful Hiking in Dinosaur Country are a good example.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
This is really great information, thank you. Only today I was thinking about starting an image clearout.
Good afternoon Twack,
It is always a good idea to do a kind of springcleaning but do it with care.
What happened made me control every downloaded image, including widgets for both my websites which each have more than 80 posts and lots of pictures. I discovered that quite a few did not have the Alt, description etc filled out correctly.
When I redownloaded the missing images I did a lighter version so that was good too.
Am still not ready with deleting the Pinterest code at the top of each post, that will take some more time.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Good afternoon Keisha,
Nice to see you and thank you for your comment.
We have a saying in Holland. When you burn yourself you will sit on the blisters. It definitely was a good lesson.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
... enjoy a healthy green apple .. š ... tried to find a green mint leaf ... soothes away any scrapes .... or maybe mint tea šµ
Sure, I am going to sit with my bum on a Mentha, I bet it helps.
It is growing in the garden so that is handy.
Hasta Pronto, Taetske
I can only imagine how long and tiresome those tasks felt. I did a similar mistake with one plugin, I removed a social share plugin because it was misbehaving and I lost my likes and shares. I have a new one now and it feels like starting from scratch.
I'm quite frustrated!
Happy you got to keep yours.
Good afternoon Nadia,
Thank you for stopping by and your comment.
As I am quite clumsy with technical things I thought I better ask first. Now I am happy I did and did not delete that social media plugin. This new plugin for Pinterest looks quite cute and I do not mind anymore it does not form part of the other plugin so all is well.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Good afternoon Florentino,
You were super quick I must say. Thank you for stopping by.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
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Good Afternoon Taetske,
Thanks for the very helpful post. I have never deleted images from my Wealthy Affiliate posts but it's good to be aware of what the result would be. Yeah, blank spaces are not appealing to the eye.
I feel for you with having to delete that Pinterest code. All those kind of things take up so much time. Most of this year I've been dealing with adjustments in my websites due to the need to change themes. It's been very laborious and tiresome, but worth the effort.
With best wishes,
Valerie
Good Morning Valerie,
As the Media File forms part of your website if it is very full it can lower speed It also depends how "heavy" the images are you have there.
I thought it was a clever idea to get rid of them as they were "only" on the WA posts. Nearly all my WA posts from 2019 and 2018 had no pictures anymore, not funny.
I have made some other changes on my websites all to improve speed. The last possibility I would have is to change the theme but I really do not want to do that. I have the same for both sites and from the beginning so I have grown fond of them. Even if they have a couple of silly things I cannot change as they are theme related.
You tell me you are still struggling with your websites because you did change the theme? Sorry to hear that. I hope you will be soon able to finalize this process and then can concentrate on something else.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Good Evening, Taetske,
Technology is so intricate, as all those with websites are aware.
My websites are reasonably stable now. It's mainly design that I'm not totally happy with, but I will get there before too long.
The speed of my websites is very good with Desktop. Any slowness is with Mobile. And, of course, Mobile is predominant in term of search, these days.
Enjoy your day,
Valerie
Some time ago I installed a plugin, WP pocket I think the name was, to improve speed for mobile. Then I discovered when looking on Michaels smartphone most of my website was not visible.
The only thing you could see was a long list of posts.
All the effort you put to make your site look nice with a header, widgets in the sidebar, etc. It was like losing your identity, this list of posts could have been anybody's work, you could not see it was me anymore.
I took that plugin away and it improved a lot. On a computer screen, it is, of course, better but now at least on mobile, you can see it is my website.
I installed the plugin Lazy Loader and that seems to help some.
All the best, Taetske
That would have been a most unpleasant experience for you, Taetske.
Thanks very much for the warning. I will stay well away from WP pocket.
I will keep the Lazy Loader plugin in mind. It may be of help for Mobile results.
Best wishes,
Valerie
Lazy Loader only shows when there is a request.
I think Pinterest must have something like that and also Pixabay. When you scroll down too fast the pictures have not loaded yet.
By the way, Lazy Loader was recommended to me by one of our big bosses.
All the best, Taetske