please provide a link to the site. Which company is hosting it?
There’s nothing very obvious causing it to be slow when looking at the site with the yslow extension on the browser. It might be an issue with the hosting, but if the hosting company can find nothing wrong,
Is it just as slow if you change to a different theme and deactivate all plugins? If so and you then see a significant decrease in speed when enabling a particular plugin again, that will help narrow down the cause.
Did you experience it to be slow? I only have 4 plugins in total. Does that slow stuff down this much? I don’t know if I cant trust my host cause they always seem to say that everythings ok with them, they never seem to admit anything. I’m afraid to switch themes cause I have spent weeks day and night rigging the theme I have, if I switch and come back Im afraid all of my configurations will be gone or re arranged. Ive read that WP can act like that.
But do you think this is a local problem with WordPress? Im getting weird error messages like “you dont have right to delete this” when trying to delete a page, or “you have already installed WordPress when trying to edit something. Everything just seem like chaos.
Yes it was slow for me, but yslow doesn’t show up any obvious red lights. Slow hosting can cause this, but to do an AB test on that you’d have to move to another host or a different server at the same host.
When troubleshooting just about any WordPress issue of unknown cause the first thing to try would be to deactivate all plugins to see whether the issue goes away and then switch to the default theme to see whether the issue is theme related. This is usually safe, I know that I can switch themes and switch back on all of my installations, but to be safe it is always a good idea to have a complete file & database backup of any site before making any changes.
If the database is causing the bottleneck, the site might gain some speed by deleting all post revisions and optimize the database. Rolf van Gelder’s ‘Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions’ plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/ should enable you to do this. Ensure you have a full backup before doing this.
Ok, I’ll contact my local host again and try to get some honest answers out of them. The way things are right now I don’t dare to uninstall the theme or switch back and forth between themes. Seems like everything is about to be sucked down the big hole of errors. I’ll be back soon to follow up this case.
After chatting with my local host yet again it seems that they did have database issues after all, I don’t know if its the typical host strategy to deny technical errors at first request but they responded more honest the second time around, or they didn’t know the first time?
Anyways, seems like they had server problems that they have sorted out now, things are running way smoother both back-end and front-end. So I guess that rules out any problems with the WP client – for now.
Thanks for responding Cubecolour.
