This is really a server question and not particularly WordPress. You’re running into a MySQL server speed bottleneck at 1and1. Sorry, but they’re well known as a slow shared host, and for that reason I doubt their VPSs are any better. Caching and a CDN will only do so much for you. You need more … Read more
To check if the query itself is slow or anything else slows it down, try running your query directly in the database, and have a look at how long it takes there. <?php echo $GLOBALS[‘wp_query’]->request; ?> This shows you the latest Query that WordPress ran in your database. If the query is really slow in … Read more
As I’ve found, this happens when your html, css or javascript tries to load a resource and you haven’t specified a path or wrongly specified root. For instance, I’ve seen examples on people having this problem while doing <img src=”http://example.com” /> background:url(); In my case specifically, was assigning $.ajax() to a global variable so I … Read more
Persuming “article_datetime” to be a numeric value, I would suggest that instead of using ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’ use ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’ If still query is slow, than remove: ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘article_datetime’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ and instead sort the result in php.
You Could, but I would never ever mess with core files. Apart from that I do not believe that the is_blog_installed() function causes your site to be unresponsive. Try disabling all plugins first, and set the theme to one of the default themes. Updating your site, plugins and themes could help you as well. Try … Read more
I ended up enabling WP_DEBUG and found an error – something about fsockopen() not being able to connect to my host (I didn’t write it down and now can’t reproduce it) – and found that it was a DNS issue;- my subdomain (foo.example.com) was resolving to the correct IP (10.0.0.1) but the primary domain wasn’t. … Read more
Try this link: WordPress Support It suggests these 7 steps about half way down: Manually run /wp-admin/upgrade.php (visit it in your browser). Try decativating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause. Try switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue. Download WordPress again … Read more
They’re both doing the same thing. If you don’t pass a post ID, get_the_title() will just use the current post and go about it’s business. The performance difference between passing a postID and not passing a postID is, if anything at all, is extremely minor. get_the_title() Codex get_the_title() Core Function
You can get rid of most of your code above. WP_User_Query has an include parameter (introduced in WordPress 3.9) include (array) – List of users to be included. So we need to get a random array of author ID’s. I have modified your count_users_with_posts() a bit here to extend it to make it more dynamic … Read more
One thing you can do to help reduce the amount of bloat is add a plugin that controls the number of previous revisions kept for Pages, Posts, etc (preferably one that allows for separate values for each type, such as last 5 revisions for pages and last 20 revisions for posts, or whatever.) There are … Read more