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Fixed – WordPress Admin Pages Slow

By Ian Lee on Jan 13, 2010 in Software

Wordpress W LogoRecently, something very odd has happened to WordPress that powers this blog. Front facing pages load fast but the back end WordPress admin pages are extremely slow to load. So slow that at times, when I save a draft, the new content would not even take. Nothing times out but many admin pages are just extremely slow to load. It turned out to be one of the plugins. Luckily I don’t have many plugins on this blog and just systematically deactivated each. The culprit was an older Google Sitemap plugin. Simply made a quick update to a new one and admin sluggishness was gone! Can’t believe how fast WordPress can be when it’s working right. If you are also experiencing WordPress admin pages loading slowly, try deactivating your plugins.

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  1. 8 Comment(s)

  2. By easymusicsongs on Jan 13, 2010 | Reply

    yes, some plugins are can conflicted one to another as well, but deactivated all or some of them will fixed the problem, that’s why I always keep my plugins to the latest version

  3. By Chris on Jan 17, 2010 | Reply

    Different versions of wordpress affects the usability of some plugins. Maybe the plugin creator must fixed the problem first.

  4. By ilolmo on Jul 14, 2010 | Reply

    i useing wordpress 2.9.2 and i try 3.0 too but i saw 3.0 veryfast but most famous plugin not work seccesful so i back old again i can tel u must use my version coz it working very good and u musnt use any plugin for make iti fast as “superchace” something more like this coz i saw it made it slow down more.if u want it be fast check ur content that u put how about picture size video size or any else and check ur plugin that u use is it realy that you need? if u didnt need very much delete it all have a great days by

  5. By online network marketing on Aug 23, 2010 | Reply

    What can be the reason of such problem???

  6. By Maria Romana on Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

    I found this page while searching for “WordPress Admin Slow”. I have a ton of plugins and was trying to find a quick answer without doing the one-by-one deactivations. Turns out I must have had the same Google sitemap plugin as you, because turning it off took me from over a minute loading my “Posts” page to about 7 secs. Still not impressive, but a whole lot better.

    Thanks!
    Maria

  7. By Ian Lee on Oct 18, 2010 | Reply

    @Maria, you are very welcome. Glad the info helped!

  8. By Armin on Jan 27, 2011 | Reply

    Hi,

    thanks for the hint!
    I won’t believe that a plugin causes this issue, but you’re right. In my case it was the Plugin “WP-Stats-Dashboard”. If it is activated it takes me about 20 sec to load another admin-page, if it is deactivated just about 3 sec.

    Greetings from Germany
    Armin

  9. By mike on Feb 28, 2011 | Reply

    thanks ian. i was dealing with the crawl for over a month until i had some time to work on it. i ended up deactivating and deleting the google xml plugin but the files were still showing up in the ftp root folder so i deleted those too. instant fix. site is 100%.

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