Title: Admin Performance Issues with 3.2.1 Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Admin Performance Issues with 3.2.1 * [torpedopress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torpedopress/) * (@torpedopress) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/) * Hi, I’m having major performance issues with a site that has 7000+ pages. Specifically, I am getting php timeouts when logging in as an Administrator and trying to the view the Pages. * From the client perspective the pages are loading really fast (running on a dedicated server). * I’ve been working with the hosting company to make sure everything they can do to tune the server has been accomplished. They have optimized both Apache and the MySQL database. * The server has 8gb of memory. * Yet, with all of this, when logging in as Admin, it takes about 20 seconds to actually get into the backend. * Often, if a second admin tries to login they will get a php timeout just logging in. * I’m really not a server guy so other than the advice that the hosting techs have given me I am at a loss as to how to improve the performance/responsiveness for the Administrators. * Any help or tips would greatly be appreciated. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345245) * are you using %postname% as your permalink setting? * Thread Starter [torpedopress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torpedopress/) * (@torpedopress) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345246) * My permalinks are set to: * /%post_id%/%postname% * [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/) * (@mickeyroush) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345317) * When did this start happening? Are you using any type of SSL certificate or settings? Strange how only the admins are being affected. Wondering if it’s a theme or plugin related. * Thread Starter [torpedopress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torpedopress/) * (@torpedopress) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345355) * When the site launched it was fine for the first 2 days. Then the first server crashed because of resource issues and the site was moved to a new server at a new hosting company. * No SSL certs are being used. The theme is Canvas from Woo Themes. * The site is only using 4 plugins, once of which is Akismet. * With the permalinks set starting with post_id, are there any known issues with WordPress not handling a medium to large number of pages? * [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/) * (@mickeyroush) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345378) * > With the permalinks set starting with post_id, are there any known issues with > WordPress not handling a medium to large number of pages? * Not that I know of, but the most pages I have on any of my sites is around 2,000. The issue was that you needed to use a custom setting that would start with a number like a date (Year, Month, or Post ID, etc.) But that it would best if it was a combination like /%post_id%_%postname%/ * But your pages are loading good now, right? It’s just your Dashboard that’s taking awhile to load? * Thread Starter [torpedopress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torpedopress/) * (@torpedopress) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345380) * Yep – pages are really fast. It’s just seems to be the admin area. Logging in as admin takes about 15-20 secs, then anything you do in the backend is extremely slow. * The hosting tech guy suggested I install a caching plugin but I really don’t see how that is going to help the Administrators? * They also haven’t confirmed there are any disk IO issues, so I’m not convinced a caching plugin would help. * I was also wondering if it is possible if some of the WordPress files got corrupted when the site was moved somehow??? * [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/) * (@mickeyroush) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345407) * > The hosting tech guy suggested I install a caching plugin but I really don’t > see how that is going to help the Administrators? * Most caching plugins are designed to help speed up the site viewing for users. So I believe you’re correct there. * > I was also wondering if it is possible if some of the WordPress files got corrupted > when the site was moved somehow??? * That’s possible. Unless you edited any of the core files (everything except wp- content and wp-config.php). You should be able to replace the core files from a fresh downloaded copy. **Backup your site first** * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update) * [rtysmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtysmith/) * (@rtysmith) * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345605) * I’m having similiar issues, only with pages. Runs out of memory, I have about 5k pages. Works with no plugins, but as I activate them (doesn’t seem to care which ones) it will break. Was actually working better on shared server then dedicated. Any one have any ideas to fix? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Admin Performance Issues with 3.2.1’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [rtysmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtysmith/) * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-performance-issues-with-321/#post-2345605) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics