Motoristi
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Immediately after upgrading to 3.3 I noticed that the visual mode editor is - to put it very mildly - slow.
I am a very slow typist and yet I have to wait for the text to appear as I type. Should there be a need to hit backspace I must be extremely careful and count the hits because relying on visual deletion will delete far beyond intended.
The new admin interface seems to slow down to a crawl upon entering the editor. It was totally responsive in the previous version.
Is there any way to get the speed back without having to downgrade?
Sabinou
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Not trying to throw you away, but how have you updgraded WordPress ? And have you tried manually reinstalling from the official wordpress.zip archive (after deleting the previous versions of them) the wp-includes and wp-admin folders ?
I can't help you, but I think this will be asked that question to begin with ;)
Motoristi
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I tried a direct replace of the suggested directories to no effect.
However I noticed that the slowness appears when using Firefox (latest version). I used Firefox with the older WP too without problems. Chrome works faster.
Then I found a test that unfortunately shows that 3.3 is a significant step back in performace over the previous version. Up to now the 3-series has improved on performance so this is a definite set-back.
http://www.dev4press.com/2011/blog/benchmark/wordpress-benchmark-3-0-vs-3-1-vs-3-2-vs-3-3/
Personally I would prefer that WP development would focus on robustness and performance rather than admin eye-candy.
dewayneinsd
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I second MOTORISTI the Visual Editor is virtually useless to me. I am running a brand new HP Quad-core AMD Win 7 (8 GB of Ram)and FF9. The Editor is pure molasses I can imagine what this would have been like on mt 4 year old HP.
The Visual Editor is running on your remote server - not on your local machine. Have you tried:
- deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
- switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
- resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
dewayneinsd
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
But esmi I am noticing Chrome does not have the same lag. I Will check my plugins as well I do wonder why the problem is so noticeable in FireFox.
