Extremely Slow Site and Dashboard

  • radicalgel

    (@radicalgel)


    13 years ago

    I run a site https://www.agletdesign.com and every now and then it just becomes excruciatingly slow. Neither my dashboard nor my site loads and I often get ‘504 gateway timeouts’ or ‘500 internal server errors’. I use the Classica theme and very few plugins:
    – Akismet
    – WP Maintenance Mode
    – WP Facebook Open Graph protocol
    – MediaElement.js – HTML5 Audio and Video
    – All in One SEO Pack
    – Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny
    – Regenerate Thumbnails

    I don’t have any heavy files on my site. I know that certain plugin can slow down my site but will they also affect the dashboard load times. As far as my knowledge goes, plugins should only affect the frontend performance of the site and not the backend. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Finally, will caching plugins help with this issue that I’m having?

    Could someone please help me trouble shoot this issue. Is this a wordpress problem or an issue with my host’s servers?

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  • Thread Starter radicalgel

    (@radicalgel)

    Could it also be a database problem? Should I try some DB optimize plugins?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    triamazikamno

    (@triamazikamno)

    Your site doesn’t seem to have a lot of data to be dying from overload. It looks more like some malware got into your theme or core files. Check all of the index.php along with all php-files in the root directory for the suspicious code. Usually it contains eval(), gzinflate(), base64_decode()

    Thread Starter radicalgel

    (@radicalgel)

    Thanks for the replies guys. I have tried deactivating all plugins with no luck. I checked index.php and other php files and found no instances for malware. Even webmaster tools doesn’t indicate any malware. I also deleted replaced the wp-admin & wp-includes folders with fresh ones. Nothing is helping. ??

    triamazikamno

    (@triamazikamno)

    Did you try to switch the theme to the default one?

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