How To Optimize myVideoPoster Processing
myVideoPoster is a very flexible WordPress Plugin, which you can use to automatically post embedded videos to your WordPress blog.
Some users have reported the plugin takes a long time to run, especially with the “check for embedding” option has been turned on.
To check if embedding is disabled, it is necessary to download the individual video page, and check the code to see if the video has been disabled. This takes time for your server, and increases memory usage as well as traffic.
If you want to optimize your posting time, here are a few tips:
- Check the feeds you add to the plugin. If the user/channel does not allow embedding in general in the videos you check. You should consider removing this feed, as it will just delay the process and potentially result in a timeout.
- Reconsider your posting interval. If you set it up to post 4 videos every two hours, it might be better to set it to post 1 new video every 30 minutes. This will reduce the load, as the cron stops once it has posted the set number of videos.
- If you do not wish to have the posts automatically tagged, turn off this feature, as it uses Yahoo’s API to generate relevant tags, and this process takes memory and processing time as well.
- The comment processing is very powerful, but it also takes time and memory to process. Each comment is verified through your WordPress installations comment approval system, and this can take some time.
Comments are however a very powerful feature, and I have seen the effect on a range of test-sites, where existing comments on a blog-post motivates other visitors to comment on the post, and that can kick-start what every blog owner wants, interaction between the users and/or the blogowner via comments.
Check out myVideoPoster today, and see just how much value you get for a very low price!