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Is Your Wordpress Blog too slow?
If you came cross this post is because you are suffering from the slow motion of your blog, I got some feed backs from my friends and blog readers complaining that the blog is getting too slow, and even some times they can not open a page on the blog.
Recently I have upgraded My Life Thinking to Wordpress version 2.6.3 , I don’t know exactly why it’s going slower, and also I have this message from the server says that “MySQL server has gone away on line: 1351” on a line of the code when I try to open some single pages to view a post. At the beginning I was thinking the template has something wrong because I often play with it, so maybe I missed with something, but after changing the template I found that I still have the same problem, the blog is too slow!
I have googled lots, but nothing that I found was helping me enough to solve the problem, some of the pages I found talking about the hosting service that may cause this kind of problems, but I am not sure about that.
After spending more time I found out something was not clear to me at the beginning, after upgrading my old Wordpress version, I notice that Popularity Contest plugin is not compatible with Wordpress 2.6.3 , it’s only compatible up to 2.3.1 , by logic this may give some problems, even if still working!
Anyways.. I thing it’s better to remove it, maybe it is the reason of the slow motion of my blog.
After removing the Popularity Contest plugin I notice that the blog is opening faster, and I don’t get this annoying message from the server.
Note it’s not necessary that will give you the same problem, on this post I just try to explain what happened with me, but you will not lose anything if you try it if you upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.3 and you still using same plugins you used to before upgrading process, so it’s good always to check all of your plugins.
I hope this could help anyone out there, so plz if you experienced a salvation for this problem and you have some ideas to speed up Wordpress I will appreciate you drop a comment.
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GoogleGears on Firefox 3 will make it faster, man
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Thank you, for the great artickle. Keep the googd work comin’
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I just read, thanks
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@ Eric
Thanks man, I have download it already, and I am using it now… It Rocks.. Magic!!
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Yeah, I’d noticed that PopContest was slowing down my sites even before if became incompatible.
Unfortunately Wordpress (and firefox) by themselves are fast but get slowed down easily and quickly through plugins and they have no internal way to show you what is causing the problem.
Personally I’ve struggled a lot with these issues as I’m on shared hosting and I still am much slower than I’d like
Anyway, perhaps this post of mine might be of use to you as well.
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@db0
Thank you so much for been helpful!
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[...] example such plugins that caused slowdowns in the past have been Popularity contest, aLinks or @Feed. To check plugins, deactivate all of them and check the critical areas of the site [...]
[...] example such plugins that caused slowdowns in the past have been Popularity contest, aLinks or @Feed. To check plugins, deactivate all of them and check the critical areas of the site [...]
[...] example such plugins that caused slowdowns in the past have been Popularity contest, aLinks or @Feed. To check plugins, deactivate all of them and check the critical areas of the site [...]
I’ve experiencing a similar issue but with version 2.7.1 I logged onto my phpmyadmin and optimized my tables. That seemed to improve the speed slightly.
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Hisham Reply:
March 13th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
@Simon, Thank you for sharing this Simon! and good luck with your blog.
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I do have a blog with more than 10 thousand of record. Recently i face this issue. Its really slow when i tried to posting new post or edit existing post. Have you ever face this kind of issue?
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Hisham Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 AM
@Chandra, It could be because of one of your plugins, make sure that you updated your plugin to the latest versions, and check this discussion on Wordpress forum:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172524
maybe it will help, r search about the reason on google and you will find lots of topics talking about same problem!
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Chandra Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 AM
@Hisham, Thanks Hisham, i tried to upgrade my wp to the latest 2.7.1 and also upgrade all the plugins that i had. Now it seem fixed already. Thanks for your advice :)
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
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Hisham Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 3:01 PM
@Sarah, Welcome to my blog Sarah, keep in touch!
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thank you for the tip.will try this
Raja
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Hisham Reply:
May 26th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
@Raja, You are welcome!
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Thank Youfor the tips Will try this for sure
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Hisham Reply:
May 28th, 2009 at 2:53 PM
@Raja, You are welcome!
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Great website you have here, very well researched and written, thanks, I found what I was looking for.
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My Blog runs with old Plugins. thus the Blog is completly slow!!
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Hisham Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:00 AM
@Joachim, well.. try to upgrade, it’s easy and you can do it just by some clicks, good luck and thanks for the visit!
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Thanks for sharing.. my blog has been going nuts for quite some time now..and I thought it was just me.
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Hisham Reply:
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 AM
@Kris, Glad to hear that helped you! good luck!
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If you host your wordpress in good providers such as Godady or Hostgator ,you wont face these kind of issues.
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We encountered the same problem after the 2.7.1 to 2.8.4 update, and after installing WP tuner plug-in we saw that Popularity Contest slows the site.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Wordpress is nice but i prefer to used blogger!
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