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Could a very long article slow down all website and wpadmin?

There is this article in the wordpress website that counts: words: 8207 characters: 56302 estimated reading time: 43m 20 images and 183 paragraphs and 201 blocks. Could affect loading time of every ...
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How can i find the cron jobs that run on my site and then move them to the server side?

I am trying to find all the cron jobs on my site and then, move them to the server-side, as my hosting provider gives me the option, to schedule them on the server. I am aware of some plugins like ...
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Are there server performance benefits to fetching only specific fields when querying the REST API?

I understand that having less data being downloaded improves the experience to the end user, but my question is related to the actual server performance, would the response be faster? I am fetching ...
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Site load time increased

My WordPress site(urchd.com) load time increased and sometimes I face error 524 due to some queries execution time exceeds 21 seconds. I already tried contacting my hosting provider they say that you ...
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WordPress and WooCommerce - How many products are too many? [closed]

I have imported about 12,000 WooCommerce products into WordPress. I think my site isn't working anymore because of that. Is 12,000 products really to much for WordPress to handle?
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Mysql / WordPress killing my server with 80k users [closed]

I have recently installed wordpress in a production server with 80K fields in wp_users registered, 175K fields in wp_post table and 350K fields in wp_postmeta. Problem is that mysql database is ...
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Should I store critical css in the database or in my theme's filesystem?

I have a method for detecting a post's critical css when the page is requested and in-lining it to optimize page speed. I would like to cache this css to avoid having to compile it for every page ...
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how to restore a wordpress website, when hosting has got expired but the hosting company gives you a bunches of zip file?

I am having a premium wordpress theme which was hosted in godaddy, but its hosting got expired. I somehow managed to get all the previous files from godaddy by paying a hefty amount of money. but i ...
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Server technical information and first respond time for WordPress

I made a wordpress theme, when I compare mine with another website (similar) mine is smaller Page size 1.1 MB Load time 5.05 s Requests 99 but their website is Page size 1.4 MB Requests 132 Load time ...
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Is it possible to cache ?wc-ajax=get_variation

I have been trying to figure out a way to make this work for awhile. I have a site, pizza shop. It has a promo, two pizzas. The product is any 2 or 15 types of pizza. I have the 15 types of pizzas ...
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Checking for new message using AJAX and PHP. Server overload?

I wrote a script (it may not be perfect, I'm newbie) to check for new message (using ArrowChat and Buddypress) every X mins. It works good, but I'm worried will it overload my server? It's shared. ...
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Server peek by Own-IP-Calls?

My site did not load a few times in the past day so I contacted my webhost and asked for a reason - their answer revealed, that Own-IP-Calls were the reason for the increased traffic. As far as I ...
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What is calling this parallax-slider.less file that is missing? [closed]

I am having an issue with my WordPress load times. Site loads very slowly, and trying to pin this to the correct issue whether it be the template/code or server related. http://03e4976.netsolhost....
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Update, add, remove plugins, themes or wordpress behind load balancer

I am running wordpress on two identical servers. Both sit behind a load balancer. Both use the same database. How am I supposed to do things like update a plugin or wordpress? My current thought is ...
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Editing post and page responding 503 Service Unavailable

I am trying to edit any page or post. While editing, it takes some time and returns 503 Service Unavailable message on web. Hardaware Configuration Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2....
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How to Layer 7 Load Balance WordPress Backend and Frontend?

I've got a Layer 7 Load Balancer setup using HAProxy for WordPress Multisite. I'm looking to have anything related to the WordPress backend to be served from a specific group of servers (A/K/A ...
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How can I measure the performance of any WordPress Plugin or Theme?

There are many WordPress plugin or themes with nearly same functionality and features but, how can I measure the performance of any plugin or WordPress theme other than using P3 profiler plugin? I ...
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Too many MySQL connections on WordPress

I installed Wordpress on my Ubuntu server. I only have 3 blog posts but it reaches max_connection within an hour. So whenever a user visits my blog it shows a database establish error. My log file has ...
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Extra themes - ok or bad?

I know I am a newbie here, but I'm just wondering, if you keep extra themes in your Wordpress setup, will it add bloat to your site? Can these other themes provide a security risk even if they aren't ...
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WordPress takes too long to show 404 error on images (on LEMP stack)

I have installed WordPress on LEMP stack on DigitalOcean and noticed that all the 404 images on the pages are taking too long to show a 404 error message. Those images are not existing so it will ...
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Disable Garbage Collection? [closed]

I have a WP site which creates 500's errors for about 2% of Apache requests (mostly bots and crawlers). I'm not able to stack trace most of those requests with 500's neither to PHP or MySQL errors as ...
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What will be the best caching system for wordpress blog which has more than one million blog posts? [closed]

I am trying to optimize a wordpress site which has more than one million blog post. I have used ngnix as many of them have recommended as it is one of the best server. I am trying to find what will ...
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Limit Search Queries per IP per Day

I have a small website keeps several pdfs, but to prevent having all of the pdfs slurped up by someone's script (and to keep track of popularity of each file), I am requiring that people enter the ...
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Is it possible to outsource wp-admin to another server?

This question might be very crazy and stupid, but I wonder if there is any chance that I could host the whole wordpress backend on another server, in order to minimize server load. For this, I guess, ...
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My wordpress website admin panel loads very slow, what can i do about that? [closed]

I am having a very slow load time for long time now, I read absolutely everything that I could about how to speed up my WordPress website hosted on azure, However there things that I am not capable to ...
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Why my site scroll top when end load pages

I have problem when i open any page in my site, Then the site still load i need to read article at this time, So when scroll page down. and at this time the site end load. It scroll me to top of page....
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Internal Server Error and bad CSS

I'm currently working on a WooCommerce website that is facing a lot of Internal Server Errors and sometimes even bad CSS. An example of bad CSS: The site loads like this at times, when it should load ...
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How to update plugins in a distributed wordpress scenario?

I have wordpress running with nginx behind a load balancer. Everything is running well. However, given that I have multiple sets of files, what's the best way to update them all? Ansible? Looking for ...
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Are WordPress Heartbeat API 'beats' staggered or do they occur simultaneously for all users?

The WordPress Heartbeat API uses admin-ajax.php to run AJAX calls. If User X leaves their browser open, many calls will be made to the server, with each call happening when there is a 'beat'. Now if ...
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How much resources are good enough for 3.9.2

I have the following specification: memory_limit(maximal 128 MB), max_execution_time(max 60 sec) same PHP-Prozesse(max 10) Is this good enough for wordpress? I am having a small site with around ...
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Getting two versions of CSS

I was using WP Super Cache plugin to apply style.css file changes that I am doing all the time. But I found the following code which working much better: <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php ...
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How to Better Control WordPress Cron Jobs?

I have a bunch of standalone WordPress sites, and WordPress Multisite Network of Sites on my server. There are times where there are too many sites all running cron jobs too soon in proximity. I am ...
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Wordpress article with 50 000 words loading slow - 100% cpu

I have a wordpress article with 50 000 words. After a debug I realised that the CPU is 100% when I read the post / open the category page. I have a quad core server with 8gb ram (the ram level is ...
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When to use wp_schedule_single_event for async / non-blocking processes?

I have noticed this pattern in some plugins lately: <?php function MY_CRON(){ wp_schedule_single_event(time(), 'MY_ACTION'); } add_action('save_post', 'MY_CRON'); function MY_FUNCTION(){ // ...
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Incomplete attachment page

I am using the twenty-thirteen theme and my attachment page chops off the footer & image. Have a look at my screenshot. You can see that it shows the title but it doesn't show the image and the ...
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Slow WP Site, theme.php not caching? Up to 25 second load time! [closed]

I have two WP subdirectories off of a Joomla domain. The Joomla load time is ok. However, the WPs are so so sooooo slow. The back end is slow too. I have w3 cache installed on both and I've copied the ...
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What is the best way to count and display the number of posts?

I have a section in my site where I display the 10 most popular posts. Now, I want to display a number, from 1 to 10, besides each post. Like this: Top 10 posts post a post b post c and so on... I ...
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Using Global Variables Expensive for PHP

I am writing some functions to display Custom Fields across multiple templates. Rather than getting each CF like so: $var = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'my_cf_key', true); and then checking if the ...
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Site running slow on new server?

I recently uploaded a website to a new 123-reg server on a single WP installation (www.moseleycoachsales.co.uk). I had developed the site on my own hosted multisite environment (http://test....
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Many POST requests to /xmlrpc.php from GoogleBot taking down server?

I have several hosted wordpress blogs, and I've been trying to visit them and they are really slow. I looked at my server logs and I found this stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:...
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Load-Testing a Wordpress Site

Can anyone recommend a load-testing solution for WordPress? I'm expecting about 500,000 page hits a month and wanted to do some stress testing on the WP framework & server stack. I would ...
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Large Number of Wordpress Posts

I am in process of setting up a catalog website and it has some 1.5 Lac products. I will write some script to import all the products but I am not sure whether WordPress will be able to handle such a ...
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Does having multiple random posts add up to server load and page load times?

I have 8 post types in wordpress and have the following query in functions.php file 8 times So will it put load on mysql and decrease load times? // random jokes function randJokes($rJokes){ $...
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High CPU load when loading images in media library

I notice it uses high cpu when I load images from my media library. I have about over 1 million images uploaded and they are organized into folders by Post ID. Any tips to reducing CPU?
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What's the best way to implement AJAX in WordPress?

WordPress has a framework in place for handling AJAX which is well documented here: http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins My concern with this is that every time you execute an AJAX query, (even ...
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How to optimize 'select found_rows()' query? Several 'high load average' alerts daily

I have 5,000 regular posts, 6,000 posts in one post type and 2,000 posts in another post type. Needless to say, that has made the wp_posts table quite large. Not to mention, I have custom taxonomies ...
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Handling large N data in WordPress

I realize that this also pertains to PHP and MySQL in general, but the context and operation is within WordPress. Introduction I am currently developing a plugin that creates and saves data about ...
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Too many posts cause slow load when paginating

I have about 10k posts and I made a page that lists all posts but it is paginated every 54posts. It gives 131 queries in 6.730 seconds which is pretty slow to load. Is there a way to make it load ...
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Does loading of sub pages in menu cause load to the server?

I am working on a wp site where I need to manage 500s of child pages for a single page such as About menu can have more child pages need to manage those child pages as sub menu and I have more than 5 ...
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server load. $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] [closed]

while writing new code and testing it, I incorporate it into my site by testing for the remote IP address as follows; i.e., I'm the only one who will see the new code: in /functions.php: // to hide ...
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