In May of 2008 I was running into a lot of trouble with my WordPress blog. Traffic was on the rise and my blog was loading very slowly and at times would even crash. Later after I fixed my WordPress blog and talked about how the damage came from overloading my MySQL database with too many WordPress Plugins. Also, while I am thinking about it, it might not be a bad idea to make sure that you are running the most recent version of WordPress. Here is another article that I wrote that will show you how to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

While not all plugins modify the database, there are quite a few that do. I suggest that you keep your WordPress MySQL database as original as possible. WordPress docs offers a page that shows you exactly how your WordPress MySQL database should look like in its original state.

Aside from running your WordPress blog with a very healthy database, there are still some things that you can do to help speed the load time of your blog, especially if your blog gets a lot of day to day traffic. (more…)