Title: Error establishing a database connection & Plugin Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Error establishing a database connection & Plugin * [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/) * (@sailingspider) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/) * Hi, I’m having an absolutle nightmare of a time and spent the past 3 days trying to fix this with some help from my hosting providers (Streamline). I really hope somebody can help. my website is [http://www.onestopsailing.co.uk](http://www.onestopsailing.co.uk) * Basically my site went to 504 error and now says: Error establishing a database connection for all pages, even if I go to /wp-admin * For the past 3 days my hosts have managed to sort it and get it back up running, however everytime I go onto the admin side of the site and make a change the site goes down. * The hosts think it’s a plug in failure and gave me this reply: * Although you have only few plugins on it, the error occur as one or more plugins installed was not properly scripted. As we have checked the enabled plugin has too many open connections without a proper closure that has put the process to a loop. With this, the table queries will open a lot of command without a proper end and after 20 tries of doing the same process, the site will crashed. Please double check the feedback of the plugin and make sure to have it from a liable source so this wont happen again. * Any idea of how I might be able to fix it or is it a server/host issue? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467300) * which version of wordpress are you using and what plugins have you got on your site? * Thread Starter [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/) * (@sailingspider) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467340) * Hi Jack, Cheers for replying. * I’m using the latest version of WordPress and have the following plugins (named as they appear on ftp): * Akismet Codestyling-localization customer-Taxonomy-order date-exclusion-seo- plugin excerpts-everywhere google-analytics-for-wordpress ml-slider ml-slider- pro photo-gallery rvg-optimize-database (I was instucted to install this by the host technical support but the site kept crashing before I could run the software) screets simple-backup ubermenu wordpress backup-to-dropbox wordpress-importer wordpress-seo wordpress-sliding-drawer-content-area * I should stress that pretty all of these are inactive. * Thanks for the assistance. * [suzettefranck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzettefranck/) * (@suzettefranck) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467345) * Did they say which plugin is causing the problem? I would look at your 2 backup plugins and disable and remove those. * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467346) * no worries. * Codestyling-localization is nearly two years out of date. date-exclusion-seo- plugin hasn’t been updated since 2009! take it out and shoot it. excerpts-everywhere hasn’t been updated in over a year screets i’ve never heard of simple-backup hasn’t been updated for 8 months ubermenu doesn’t play well with some other plugins wordpress-sliding-drawer-content-area hasn’t been updated in nearly 3 years. * they could be a big part of your problem… * Thread Starter [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/) * (@sailingspider) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467423) * Bonza!!! Cheers Jack. Do you know any alternative to codestyling-localisation? * I’ll get the plugins off and hope it works! * Suzette – sadly they don’t appear to know. * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467426) * no worries. try [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-translate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-translate/) for your translation needs, it’s very current so it should play nicely with wordpress 4.0 (i assume that’s what that codestyling-localisation plugin does!) * 🙂 * Thread Starter [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/) * (@sailingspider) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467535) * Hi, Well we got the site back up. However when I went to log in it crashed again. Could there be a fault in wordpress or the theme (midway)? * Cheers, * Thread Starter [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/) * (@sailingspider) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-plugin/#post-5467536) * Scrap that, just spoke to the hosting guys and it turns out they have alot of traffic on te MySql. Time to move hostings me thinks! 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