Anybody working on a Wordpress site?

someone in my office decided we need a SECOND site in Wordpress (don't ask me why). I've been stuck with doing the updates. The information we received from the designer/vendor (who has given us erroneous instructions before) was that, after finalizing a page, hitting "update", you have to CREATE a backup and then RESTORE the backup. This is taking about 15 minutes for EVERY.SINGLE.PAGE. I'm going crazy ... it's not like I don't have other work to do.

Anybody have any suggestions as to how to make this piece of crap go faster?

Your vendor is full of shit. WordPress saves backups of posts/pages automatically as you write. You absolutely don't ever, EVER, have to create a backup of the whole site just to make a new post (that's just for stuff like moving the whole site to a new server); and even if you did, it would just be a click in the edit screen, not restoring the entire site.

(And if you really want to be a bitch you can tell 'em you heard that from someone who's been one of the core WP developers for the last 8 versions now.)

It's not the site - it's EVERY SINGLE PAGE has to (according to the full-of-shit vendor) have its backup created and then restored. And every time a page is edited, I have to go through the same f*king process ... which at this point is taking close to 15 minutes for EACH page.

Now it could be that they've done something cute so that it is necessary ... but the information they sent us originally had incorrect information about the image size, so I don't know if they're shitting us or did something to make it harder to do.

WHY we needed a second site I will NEVER understand. I'm just left holding the bag, so to speak.

Elgato + Mac

EyeTV doesn't come with a TV tuner, just component in. (Which it then converts to H.264 and somehow still has the nerve to call the outputted video "pristine" so...)

Huh. I didn't realize that Elgato stopped making ATSC tuners.

The EyeTV software will work with a HDHomeRun DUAL. Of course, it's starting to get expensive, but maybe still cheaper than a TiVo?

Now it could be that they've done something cute so that it is necessary ... but the information they sent us originally had incorrect information about the image size, so I don't know if they're shitting us or did something to make it harder to do.

More likely, they don't know how to use the damn software but they feel free to tell you what to do anyway.

Seriously. I'm not sure what kind of processes you have in place to "require" this, but unless some equally bullshit boss is standing over you with threats to your employment, you could really probably just skip it.

(If you want, drop me a note with more details about what they want you to do, because it doesn't even begin to make sense. But with the details, I might be able to help figure out what they're really getting at and save you hours every day (which you should totally use to play online instead))

I was using an HD Homerun tuner with EyeTV software, I think. In fact I should still have it and it is useless to me with my no OTA reception if you want to try that option.

amych, thanks for the info. I gave a try ... and if I don't go through the whole create/restore backup process the post just sits there as a draft. The updated version is only visible on the edit site.

It looks like they set up a staging site for us (me) to work on and the create/restore backup process sends it to the live/production server.

damn them

Ah, yeah, that makes more sense, but it sounds like a PITA way to implement a staging workflow. Bleh.

I can't think of a good reason to do this ... all I can think of is that they did all the planning and design with people who have limited knowledge of how websites work (one adamantly refuses to review anything electronically - everything - including emails - is printed, marked up, and then given to ... usually me ... to edit).