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  • Anonymous User 8639124

    (@anonymized-8639124)


    I’m trying to troubleshoot what combination of plugins is causing my site to slow (defining slow as regular old “slow” and painful “taking minutes to reconnect”). It most often affects the admin side. It often affects the frontend. And, for the frontend at least, it only affects me…I’ve asked friends to load various pages, and they always load fine.

    Doing the basic troubleshooting of turning off plugins and resetting the theme to Twenty Fourteen confirms that it is a plugin issue. The problem is, I can also confirm it’s two or more plugins in combination that are causing the problem.

    So at this point I’d usually do a slog through all the various combinations of plugins turned on and off. However, the conflict seems to be intermittent: it won’t affect performance for several loads of a given screen, then it will lock things up for ten minutes…and often if it’s locked up in one browser, a different browser loads fine for a while.

    All to say, I’m not sure how to troubleshoot a problem that presents itself inconsistently.

    So my basic question is, is there a way to find conflicts that doesn’t rely on reloading the browser?

    Or any other advice I should consider?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    The best way really is to deactivate all plugins, then re-activate them individually until you find the problem. It’s really the only way to be sure.

    Running http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/ while all of the plugins are active may help identify a few suspects more clearly, but you’ll still need to do the plugin dance to find the conflict for sure.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 8639124

    (@anonymized-8639124)

    [Sympathetic grumble.] I’ve taken the P3 tack too without luck. I think indeed it’s going to be a matter of not just re-activating plugins individually (which I’ve done) but activating one and then reactivating all the others one at a time until the conflict presents itself.

    And I’m embarrassed to say how many plugins my site uses (as well optimized as they all are), but suffice it to say the process of elimination will take a while, especially given the conflict doesn’t present itself on every reload.

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