Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you know that in the next week we will begin a process of upgrading WUWT’s internal components and the web page theme. The current theme we use is almost 10 years old and is no longer working well in today’s Internet environment.
Starting Wednesday, you might see that the website has been switched into maintenance mode and you will not be able to view any new articles or make any new comments. We have to do this in order to be able to have a stop and starting point for migrating all of the content over to the new setup. I don’t yet know how long it will take or how long the site will be in maintenance mode.
At the same time, we are going to make some other adjustments to make the website run faster. One of our biggest problems in getting better SEO ranking is web page load time, which can be traced to the huge database of articles (34,995 articles and nearly 4 million comments as of this writing ) we have going back 18 years. It simply takes too long for WordPress to respond with such a large database to query. To that end, we will likely split up the WUWT website into an archive section and a current section. By doing this we should be able to improve load times significantly both for web browsers and mobile phone delivery. This way, you’ll still be able to find older articles and comments.
Another thing that will happen is that we are going to increase our advertising load on pages. This can’t be helped, as costs to run and maintain WUWT have significantly increased over the past year. I’ve always preferred to have a light touch when it comes to advertising but I really don’t have a choice at this point except to increase it. If you want to continue to view the website with no advertising at all you can sign up for one of our subscription programs.
Also, at this time I welcome any ideas that you might have for improving content or features or the way this website operates. This would include the kinds of stories we put up, editorial content, the way commenting is run, and anything else you think needs adjustment or updating.
As always, thank you for continuing to visit and thank you for supporting truth and sanity in the climate debate. – Anthony
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