Speeding up WordPress

If your WordPress Dashboard is running slowly, there are several steps you can take to try to improve its performance:

1. Optimize Your Hosting Environment: The speed of your WordPress site, including the Dashboard, can be significantly impacted by your hosting service. If you’re on shared hosting, consider upgrading to a VPS or a managed WordPress hosting solution that offers better resources and optimized configurations for WordPress.
2. Update WordPress, Themes, and Plugins: Ensure that all aspects of your site are up-to-date. Outdated themes and plugins can slow down your site and pose security risks.
3. Deactivate Unnecessary Plugins: Having too many plugins, or a few resource-heavy plugins, can significantly slow down your Dashboard. Deactivate and delete plugins that you don’t need.
4. Use a Caching Plugin: While caching typically affects the frontend performance, some caching solutions can optimize backend processes. However, since you are using WP Rocket, you’re likely already benefiting from caching. Ensure it’s configured optimally.
5. Optimize Database: Over time, your WordPress database can become bloated with post revisions, trashed items, and transient options. Use a database optimization plugin like WP-Optimize to clean up your database.
6. PHP Version: Check with your hosting provider to ensure you’re using a recent version of PHP. WordPress recommends PHP 7.4 or later. Newer versions of PHP offer significant performance improvements.
7. Limit Post Revisions: WordPress saves every change you make in the posts and pages as revisions. This can lead to a bloated database. You can limit the number of revisions WordPress keeps for each post or page by adding a line like define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5); to your wp-config.php file.
8. Check for Cron Jobs: WordPress uses a scheduling system called WP-Cron to handle time-based tasks. Some plugins may use this excessively or inefficiently. You can use a plugin to view and manage WP-Cron events.
9. Content Delivery Network (CDN): If your site serves a global audience, a CDN can help speed up loading times for your site’s static resources, including for backend operations.
10. Check Error Logs: Review your site’s error logs to identify any recurring issues that might be affecting performance.
11. Disable WP Heartbeat API: The Heartbeat API helps provide real-time communication between your web browser and the server, but it can also consume resources. You can control the frequency of the heartbeat API using a plugin or by adding code to your functions.php file.
12. Consult with Your Hosting Provider: If none of the above solutions work, your hosting provider may be able to identify issues specific to your server environment.

Remember, before making significant changes, especially to core files like wp-config.php, it’s always a good idea to back up your site. If you’re unsure about making these changes yourself, consider reaching out to a professional WordPress developer.

Thankyou.

However, tthe above may not ne necessary.

My site is hosted on a friend’s hosting package.

he says when he logs in, it works quite quickly.

So what could be going on?

it’s interesting that your friend experiences better performance when logging into your site compared to your experience. This difference in performance can be attributed to a variety of factors:

1. Internet Connection Speed: Your internet connection might be slower or less stable than your friend’s. This can significantly affect how fast web pages, including WordPress admin pages, load.
2. Geographical Location: If your friend’s hosting server is located geographically closer to him than to you, he might experience faster loading times due to reduced latency.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by WP Provider.

I doubt either of these things is the reason.

I have Superfast Broadband and miv e a few hundred metres from the exchange.

I am sometimes getting insuffiiciet resources error messages so maybe I am competing with him?

you should take a look at the available/allocated resources for your account Probably not suficient.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by WP Provider.
• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by WP Provider.

Is your website control panel powered by cPanel?