Gravity Forms slows down the admin area

I have the same problem, for a single admin page there are 11 HTTP POST requests to
https://www.gravityhelp.com/wp-content/plugins/gravitymanager/version.php. On some of the admin pages I get 25 such requests.

@windyjonas would you mind sharing your server configuration? You can find PHP/MySQL/GF/WP details under Forms > Settings > Installation Status.

Apparently downgrading WordPress v4.5.2 fixes it.

@robmin sure:

PHP-version 7.0.10-2+deb.sury.org~trusty+1
MySQL-version 5.5.50
WordPress-version 4.6.1
Gravity Forms Version 2.0.7.2

@windyjonas It looks like WP 4.6 upgrade is the common factor. Are you using Apache or Nginx?

@robmin Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)

@windyjonas Same here.

Any luck? I’m having the same issue since switching from Apache to Nginx. As soon as I disable Gravity Forms everything speeds up.

Nope, I haven’t had time to look into it further. I’m planning on following up later this week with the GF support folks.

Check if Curl is installed on the server. It might have been a coincidence, but as soon as we installed Curl this issue stopped occurring.

Must have been a coincidence. I have curl installed ??

Ok I’ll check my setup to see if anything else changed.

I have tried optimising the database with WP-Optimize and I went ahead and removed transient options and that hasn’t fixed it either. I might just do a reinstall over Christmas because I can’t seem to get it fixed any other way.

I fixed this issue by comment out the call to post_to_manager on line 2101 in gravityforms/common.php:

$raw_response = ''; //self::post_to_manager( 'version.php', $nocache, $options );

Until this is resolved by Gravityforms..

Thanks for that @gerhardsletten. BTW, the GF dev team have acknowledged the issue and are working on a fix.

I noticed that disabling w3tc object cache “fixes” the problem. That is, the http requests to gravityhelp.com doesn’t occur for every admin page. For my site that reduced the page load time from seven seconds to one”