My wordpress has gone mega slow! Any ideas?

Paulie,

Like you, I had some problems with my site's speed. Besides a caching plugin and CDN as mentioned by Techdistinct, I'd review my code (HTML, CSS, PHP) and also remove all plugins that are not absolutely needed. Many plugins can be replaced with a few lines of code in the right places. The latter (improving code and removing plugins) did wonders for my site's performance. You might also want to try CSS sprites.

 

I think your template has got too many heavy images or you are using any hacked premium template.

 

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Fixed what error exactly? And how did you do it? Why do we need to PM you when this is a FORUM for sharing information.

And did you follow this thread? Do you realize that the OP has the problem resolved?

 

lol!

Wrong about both, but nice try.

 

In the past when my WP blogs were running slow, it was usually related to a url in my ping list. Make sure they are all valid and working.

 

Ive never actually played around with the pinglist, infact id forgotten it was there till you said.

 

how many plugins you have installed in your wordpress installation ? and which plugins ?
i have two wordpress installation on same server. wordsofosho.in and upscguide.in , on upscguide.in i m using wordpress+buddypress+buddypress courseware and few other high resourses plugin so it is much slower then wordsofosho.in which has just wordpress + search engine + advertise manager .
you can check the differance between speed of this two site .

i have installed wp super cache plugin but i didnt notice any speed improvement with such a caching plugins

 

theme you are using is also responsible upto some extent

 

The problem is fixed now and had nothing to do with the theme. It was a PHP config issue to do with hosts, problem wasnt on my end.

 

Really need a [RESOLVED] button on this forum. Idiots don't read the thread and start babbling nonsense.

 

RIGHT? I just spent 10 minutes reading this thread to see if maybe I could help to find it was over at the end. Oh well...

 

A virus perhaps or you should have their latest plugins. The best thing would be contacting support for much needed ways to get the right answer for this. Or browse some videos for tips.

 

I think you have a virus. Maybe you should browse some videos to learn how to read and properly reply to posts in a forum. If you do not know how to find those videos, contact support and they will be more than happy to tell you.

 

It could actually be a plugin, that as the database has grown in size, is communicating with the database poorly and slowing it down. That would account for it being slow now and not slow then... or did it start going slow out of the blue? Also it could be your browser if your are running firebug on firefox. Post a link of the blog? EDIT: OOPS, missed the resolved.

 

Normally its hard to get a response to a tech question, where as now, everyone is still replying lol.

Just for reference though it started going slow out of the blue. Not sure what PHP config issue there was on the hosts end, but it was resolved.

Paulie

 

Maybe you gotta shout it louder!

This problem is RESOLVED. No need to keep replying

 

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