I have no technical backing for this suggestion except that I’ve seen it work on two different operating systems with the Google Chrome web browser.
Accessing my self-hosted WordPress blog to add posts and do site maintenance, page loads were taking FOREVER. The media uploader was hanging too. I thought it was a plugin hogging resources so I disabled a bunch of them and it still didn’t really help.
Finally I cleared the browser cache and cookies and now everything is back to normal speed.
Ideas anyone? I’m running plugins only provided by wordpress.org and the latest version of WordPress and everything else.
February 22, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Haven’t tried them by myself, but eventually these plugins help:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/optimize-db/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-optimizer/
February 23, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Yes, I’m already running wp-db-optimizer. I like that it runs automatically on a schedule. I saw a huge improvement in performance after I ran it for the first time… granted I’d been running the site for a full year and had never optimized the database. I discovered it when I cloned the site to do experiment with and did a fresh database import. I was shocked how the cloned site was so much faster.
February 22, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Have you tried not using Chrome? Might help debug.
February 22, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Firefox seemed to work a little better, but not by much. I wondered if something changed in WordPress or one of the plugins that was conflicting with some stuff it had previously left behind in the browser.