Disable individual website and blog connections

When Contribute starts, it verifies all the connections defined in the My Connections dialog box and opens a connection to each defined website and blog. Sometimes, a website or blog may not be available. For example, the network connection may be weak or inconsistent, the network may time out, or the server may have exceeded the maximum number of connections. If one or more of the websites or blogs are unavailable for any reason, Contribute cannot open those connections.

To improve Contribute performance, you can disable connections to websites and blog servers that you don’t need to update frequently. Defining many websites and blog servers requires multiple network connections over an extended period, which impacts performance. When you need to edit the website or blog, you can enable the connections.

Disabling a connection for CPS-managed websites works the same as it does for non-CPS-managed websites. In addition, disabling a blog server connection works like disabling websites managed by CPS.

If you do not want your website to be managed by the publishing server (CPS), you may disable the publishing server from the Administer Website dialog box. For more information, see Disable CPS for a website.

1. Select Edit > My Connections (Windows) or Contribute > My Connections (Mac OS).

   The My Connections dialog box appears.

2. Select the desired website or blog server connection from the list of connections. (Disabled connections are marked with a red slash.)

3. Click the Disable button.

4. A dialog box appears, informing you that the connection has been disabled. Click OK to verify that this is the connection you want to disable. If you have inadvertently disabled the wrong connection, you can re-enable the connection; for more information, see Enable a website or blog server connection.

5. Click Close to save your changes and close the My Connections dialog box.

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