Improve Posting Speed/Performance of Wordpress Site

I am in serious need of a method, process or expert in Wordpress/PHP/MySql to speedup the processing when our authors post articles. The antiques news site is listed in my signature.

 

Have you talked to your host about this? It could be a problem with the host.

 

I have thought about this and have followed up.

When an author creates a post, it is accepting the Title, Categories, Slug, etc. but, seems to time out when some are entering/pasting their post content.

We are currently using the FCKeditor for Wordpress along with some other plugins including the Page/Category plugin (e.g. ties category posts to specified page). I tend to believe the problem centers on the speed of the MySql database and returned results when add/edit/delete of records occur.

 

I agree with that. It is probably due to the access speed. I still suggest to talk to your hosting provider if you haven't already. Also, try disabling one plug-in at a time to see if any of those are causing any problems.

 

Thanks for the advice Zacdavis.

 

No problem.

 

what type of hosting on you on. shared, dedicated? what hosting company. i've recently had some issues when multiple users log in and out of wordpress admin. im on a shared hosting plan. it could be cause of your shared hosting plan

 

Hosting is on shared plan with Lunar Pages.

When an author/user post an article, the status bar moves forward and the transaction "usually" processes. If you wait for completion, it often returns a SQL failure message. If you click "View Site" approximately 1/2 way of the status bar it will take you back to the homepage showing the post completed.

This is quite frustrating!

 

How many sites are you pinging when you post? In previous versions of WP, if the list was too long it used to delay the posting process significantly. I believe there is a plug-in to relegate the ping/update to a background process - might this help?

 

COuple plugins that MIGHT help you besides upgrading to latest WordPress 2.3 (I used to have similar issue and upgrade addressed it by 99%) remaining addressed using this plugins:

No Ping Wait - http://somethingunpredictable.com/wp-no-ping-wait/
Smart Update Pinger - http://www.daven.se/usefulstuff/wordpress-plugins.html

Alex

 

Ahh... I totally forgot about pinging...

 

have you tried wp-cache to alleviate sql load?

also how big is your ping list?

 

There's a new & much better version of the Smart Update Pinger - see Wordpress Smart Update Pinger