A few readers have informed me over the last couple of days that the blog has been giving them CPU usage errors when they try to post comments. For that, my apologies. I know how frustrating it is to spend time writing something only to have it disappear when you hit the post button. I’ve spent hours this weekend looking at why this was happening.
The bottom line appears to be that my theme had way too many plugins activated, and it was causing the MySQL database to use more than acceptable resources on my hosting company’s server. The blog has also been pretty slow loading as a result.
In order to try and correct the problem, I’ve changed my default theme, upgraded to WordPress 2.2. and removed about 60% of the plugins. Please let me know if you get any error messages from this point forward, and I hope you like the newer, cleaner look and that you don’t have to spend any time waiting for various posts to load.