ajwalsh

Thanks. Have read through the instructions. At one point it says “make sure all index.php, .htaccess, and other files that might be copied over are backed up and/or moved.”

I just realized that I have two .htaccess files, one in the root folder and one in the blog folder. I don’t know anything about how they work, is this problematic? See http://pastebin.com/KqjY2u5u

Thanks again.

Thanks 123milliseconds. I just can’t get to the bottom of this.

If it’s a problem with a plugin or WP itself, why is it only horribly slow some of the time?

If it’s a hosting problem, then why does the rest of my site (non-WP static pages) always load fine? (http://andrewjwalsh.com loads fine, http://andrewjwalsh.com/blog is often slow…)

I just checked on the iwebtool speed test and the blog loaded in 2.29 one time and 14.65 just a few seconds later…

My host has not been able to provide any help. I really would like to figure out where the issue lies, but do not know how to proceed.

Hmmmm, I may have solved it. I got rid of one plugin that I thought was a little less well-known than the others and it seems to be running fast again now.

I’ll make sure this isn’t just temporary, but if that was the only problem, I really apologize for making so much of a fuss in this thread!

Greg, thanks for the help.

I temporarily switched to Twenty Ten and that did seem to make things run faster. And my whole problem is strange because it seems to be hit-or-miss: sometimes it loads pages fine and sometimes everything takes at least 5-10 seconds.

I turned WP_DEBUG on and got a bunch of errors. They seemed to be all related to very common plugins (All in One SEO, Share and Follow etc) and a few deprecated functions in functions.php (which looked relatively minor):

http://pastebin.com/K36ZuWpN

I am rather doubtful that the plugins are the problem if it ran smoother with Twenty Ten. I don’t have any cache plugins running currently, and I’m pretty confused about what to do next.

Thanks again for the help. My url is http://andrewjwalsh.com/blog

Finally, I’m not sure if this is a clue but when I log to my admin screen those options take forever to load and sometimes time out.

I have solved the issues myself. If anyone else is curious about how to do it, I consulted this tutorial:

http://www.wprecipes.com/datadial-asked-how-can-i-display-1-full-post-and-3-excerpts

Actually, I do still have one issue. I’d like to include a link to “leave a comment” for the full post but “click to continue reading” for the excerpts.

<?php  if ($count < 1) { the_content();	}
$count = $count + 1;
the_excerpt(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Click to Continue Reading</a>

This code understandably shows the “click to continue” on both. What function can I use to enter html into the two different PHP lines?