dreamleaf

I’d be happy to test it, fire me an email at nik.hurwood at gmail .com when you’ve got it ready!

The main give away that it’s the plugin is that when disabled, nothing happens at all. Zero requests apart from legitimate traffic/requests.

The issue was pretty confusing to start with, when I noticed it I saw that the traffic was coming from the server the sites are hosted on, with no referring url shown (which is why I thought cron). Then digging a bit deeper I saw that the request was actually being made with the User Agent of PHP5… rather than a browser name, botname or feed name.

It was only at this point I considered looking at the plugins in turn, and disabling this one stopped the requests.

I agree that the 20min intervals is a very weird part of it, especially with no external request being made. The only thing I can think of at the moment is that maybe WP cron is giving it a kick at those intervals, maybe as a side effect of it doing something else.
Alternatively, the code itself may be looping.

A problem like this I would have expected more people to pick up on, and if it wasn’t for me noticing this on 2 different setups (but same issue) I would have chalked it up to the setup.

I’d just like to say the functionality of this plugin is really good and much needed, but while providing the bandwidth overhead – I can’t use it.

did you not backup the database as the instructions say – before you clicked the upgrade button?

Has anybody else experienced this, grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks