After upgrade to 2.7 – very slow

Valentijnsessink, I am very new to this and I can’t figure out for the life of me where to change what you said above. I logged into my account at godaddy and went to my domains and saw on the domain that has the blog where I can add a host, but I don’t see the etc/hosts that you talk about above. Can you tell me how to do what you did above because my site is so slow after I upgraded that it’s almost pointless because people will leave before they wait 45 seconds for it to load :o( I have never had a issue with wordpress like this and it seems like what you said is a fix for it, but I just can’t seem to figure out what it is that you did. If anyone else understand it and can explain I would appreciate it so much. Also when you say “myblog.example.com” what is that address? What is suppose to go into the example part?

If you have a hosting service like Godaddy (with public IP address), my fix will probably not help you. If, however, your hosting is behind a DSL line, chances are that you have so called “Network Address Translation” or NAT in place. *If* you have NAT, you should check that your server can find itself.

Example. (These are examples! They won’t help you without replacing the names and numbers with your own ones).

Suppose your blog is called “my-personal-blog.example.com”. Suppose the internal IP address of your server is 192.168.1.101.

Then check, if your server can find “my-personal-blog.example.com” and check if your server translates it to 192.168.1.101.

Now you seem to have a Godaddy account, and I’m pretty sure that you have a regular, public IP address (i.e. not starting with 192.168….). This means the above doesn’t apply. You still could check if your server knows itself, i.e. if the server can resolve (i.e. find the DNS information for) “my-personal-blog.example.com” (replace with your own blog name). If your server is a Unix or Linux machine and you log in to the commandline, try host my-personal-blog.example.com (replace with your own blog name) and see if it is your server’s IP address. If you log in to a web front-end, I wouldn’t know how to check these things.

Best regards, Valentijn

GoDaddy’s hosting works fine with WordPress, and so any “fixes” like above won’t help. Their servers can connect to themselves just fine.

If you’re having speed issues on GoDaddy, then it’s probably just the fact that their servers are so overloaded and slow. There’s no fix for this short of upgrading to a dedicated server or switching hosts.

All,

I have encountered the same problem and switched my blog back to 2.6.5

I am not a newbie and would consider myself proficient in software considering I work for a software company. I totally understand the support of software process so I have 2 suggestions in order to get this fixed.

1) For the guys that are really proficient in PHP and WordPress, could you write out a guide on how to troubleshoot and debug this problem. This will allow some good qualified data to come back instead of just “it’s broken”.

2) Nobody seems to understand that WordPress is free and that Otto42 is not incentivised to support or help us in any way, therefore, if people who have this problem were to “contribute” $5 each into Otts42’s paypal account would he be willing to troubleshoot 3 install instances to find the root cause?

Hello,
i have the same problem. With IE 6 is very slow, and with Mozilla or IE 7 its ok. The Theme was the reason. This was built with a program and this has have an problem. With update it is ok. Try with an other browser and look ist it ok or try a default Theme.
Maybe this can help.
best regards
michael

I’m having slow response times viewing and editing posts too. Just wanted to chime in.

I am new to WordPress. Should I look at installing an older version or has this ver. 2.7 “slow” issue been fixed.

Thanks

@ Paint Guy:
The slowness issue has not been fixed. As far as I know, it has not been acknowledged by the developers as a problem related to WordPress, so it might take a while for this to be sorted out …

Was there ever a resolution to this issue?

@psionmark – Did you find any solution?
I have the same issue with my blog! ??
What should I do in order to get lower GPU usage in MT???
I know 1blogcacher can do that but it causes very problem such as Internal server error.

Try changing themes…there’s a chance your chosen theme is an issue in the 2.7 versions and beyond.

Also, download and activate Firebug for Firefox…it’s a free add-on…then load your blog normally in Firefox, and use Firebug to check the load time and what exactly is taking the longest amount of time to load.

Chances are it’s files from your theme…Firebug will show you…if so, change your theme.

Otto: Sorry for jumping on an older thread here, but this is interesting information. Specifically, you listed `function block_transport() { return false; }
add_filter(‘use_http_extension_transport’, ‘block_transport’);
add_filter(‘use_curl_transport’, ‘block_transport’);
add_filter(‘use_streams_transport’, ‘block_transport’);
add_filter(‘use_fopen_transport’, ‘block_transport’);
add_filter(‘use_fsockopen_transport’, ‘block_transport’);`

Do you know what default WP functions we would be blocking with each of the individual filters above? Eg, pingbacks, trackbacks, XML-RPC, etc? If some of us don’t need some of those things, we could shut them off without issue, but I’d hate to shut down a protocol that is needed for something I consider important.

Also, I don’t believe it was mentioned here in this thread, but I found a tip on the WP Tuner site about physically removing unused plugins. https://blogs.icta.net/plugins/2009/08/24/wptuner-096-comments/#comment-642. It makes no sense to me how this could help, but I have seen marked improvement in my page loads since doing it. I looked at the wp-settings.php file it reads the list of active plugins from the database. It doesn’t just loop through all the files in the plugin directory. So it really makes no sense, but it seems to work. Do you have any idea why something like that might improve performance?