Causing Slow Site After Updates / Migration

Resolved yesyeah
(@yesyeah)

7 years ago

Hey there! Still love this plugin to death, but recently since updating WP and woo and moving to a new server etc we found that it was causing the site to run very slow when saving posts, etc (once deactivated, everything was fine). I deleted the plugin and readded it to see if that helped, but it doesn’t appear to have wiped all the settings etc.

Is there a way to fully flush the site of anything related to the plugin so I can try and reinstalling a fresh copy from scratch and re-setup? We’d really like to keep the plugin but as is, the site moves way too slow to keep it.

Thanks so much!

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Plugin Author Northern Beaches Websites
(@northernbeacheswebsites)

7 years ago

Hi @yesyeah,

Thanks for your kind words. I think what you are describing is not an inherent issue with the plugin. Firstly the main thing to understand is that the plugin doesn’t store much data at all in your database. So the concept of flushing things to make things faster is not something is going to improve things not even 1 millisecond because once you re-authenticate again the same amount of data is going to be stored. On the plugin help tab in the plugin settings you can delete the settings – please see: “How do I delete all the plugin settings?” but as I said this won’t actually improve things.

The actual slowness you are reporting is just the inherent time it takes for your server to send the data and for Google’s server to carry out the action and send a success or failure response back. By ensuring you have fast hosting will improve things somewhat but a lot of the drain will be on Google’s end and there’s not much that the plugin can do with this. From my experience, this process usually take 2-5 seconds and for most people this is not a big deal.

Thanks,
Thread Starter yesyeah
(@yesyeah)

7 years ago
Thanks! Though I think you misunderstand what I am saying.

I’m not talking about the time it takes to send anything to Google for posting, I am talking about any action on the website. With the plugin loaded, even if I have “do not share post” or on a page, where I don’t have it set to post to GMB, the actual literal site speed is dramatically slowed down (eg. saving page edits, etc). It literally can take up to 15 seconds to execute anything on the site w/o the plugin activated. Once the plugin is deactivated, everything is super fast. We are on a very fast server (siteground) and this just happened after the migration – so my thought was something after the migration caused an issue? Literally, w/o the plugin activated, the site hums. With it activated, everything is very slow. So I thought wiping the plugin fully and resetting it back up may help.

With that clarification, does anything possible change with your thoughts?

I do know, as I have seen on another couple sites, that there are error messages on the posts backend (which you had said in the past to ignore).

I know the plugin hasn’t been updated since the last wordpress update, so just was curious what may be conflicting with this particular site and the plugin (and could only think of trying to fully reset it back up.

Thanks!
- This reply was modified 7 years ago by yesyeah.
Plugin Author Northern Beaches Websites
(@northernbeacheswebsites)

7 years ago

This is not something I have been able to repeat on my end. If I found the plugin was causing the backend to be slow generally this is something I would have fixed up a long time ago. A lot of technical issues have been fixed up but these never caused slowness. The plugins overhead is relatively small. We need to run some library scripts but these are essential to the plugins functionality, like time pickers, but this is really small and only ran when needed.

Thanks,

Thread Starter yesyeah
(@yesyeah)

7 years ago

I appreciate your replies. It’s really super weird, I have tried testing numerous times. When the plugin is activated on this particular site, it can take up to 15 seconds to execute requests. When I deactivate it – not an issue. It’s really odd. Not sure what to do.

This is the error on the sidebar for each post – that’s all I can find:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-google-my-business-auto-publish/wp-google-my-business-auto-publish.php on line 1855

That same error is listed 7 times.

Plugin Author Northern Beaches Websites
(@northernbeacheswebsites)

7 years ago

This error normally means you need to re-authenticate. It would not cause performance constrains though.

Thread Starter yesyeah
(@yesyeah)

7 years ago

Yeah, I tried that (deleted plugin and files, reset up, etc) – slowness still there and errors still there (didn’t think the errors were related, but figured I’d try it all again). If you have any other ideas about potential conflicts, let me know. thanks!

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