Title: Plugin drastically slows down website (suddenly)
Last modified: May 22, 2017

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# Plugin drastically slows down website (suddenly)

 *  [drewhume](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewhume/)
 * (@drewhume)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-drastically-slows-down-website-suddenly/)
 * Hey guys,
    I’ve been using the plugin for a couple of months now and love it.
   Just 3 days ago though, my website started having severe trouble and many 500
   errors. Today I’ve disabled all plugins and one-by-one reactivated them and found
   that Display Posts Shortcode was causing the overload on the CPU. I’ve left it
   disabled for now but I would really like to get it back up and running. Do you
   have any insights on this, on what might have caused it? The only thing I did
   recently on the website was to update all plugins that needed updating – something
   I do each month. This may have coincided with the changes, but only loosely. 
   Thanks in advance for your help. My website is navina.ca

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 * Last reply from: [drewhume](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewhume/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-drastically-slows-down-website-suddenly/)
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