Admin WordPress 3.1 Slow — Do You Notice it too?
Since I updated my blog to wordpress 3.1, whenever I first time logged in to my admin dashboard and want to create or edit blog post, the admin dashboard loads very slow, and it happens to other blogs, I even tried to install a brand new blog without any plugins or premium themes, and all happen to be the same, admin wordpress 3.1 slow problem still remains.
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After noticing this glitch I did some Google research and it seems to be wordpress 3.1 bug, because I saw alot of people are reporting this matter, either to wordpress.org official forum or some bloggers wrote the same articles about this problem.
I am not sure if you also have it, but apart of doing researches above, last time I check Google analytics, some Google visitors actually search for the search term, Admin wordpress 3.1 slow.
Of course, personally updating wordpress to the latest version is a must to me. Usually before I updated my blog, I first tried in my local wordpress blog (related post: install wordpress locally windows, and install wordpress local mac) to test everything first.
But this time, I updated to wordpress 3.1 directly after backing up wordpress database only, so I try it within my online blog.
The update alone went excellent, just from the day one, my admin activities became slower at the first minutes, after that, it runs okay.
I thought at first, it was because of my host, but it happens everyday after I logged in to my dashboard, other than that, I don’t find any problems so far.
Admin wordpress 3.1 slow What to do?
I have not tried too much stuff about it yet, but many people said, by turning off admin top bar in the front end of wordpress blog (related post: disable admin bar wordpress 3.1) will help.
I actually did it, but to me, it does not help quite much, the admin wordpress 3.1 slow problem is still there.
What weird, is, always in the first minutes after I logged in, it becomes slower. But a few minutes later, it will be fine.
Admin wordpress 3.1 slow any solutions?
Since I notice a lot of bloggers have this problem too (this I know in so many forums, not only in wordpress.org forum, but other forums which have bloggers as members), I actually think this is wordpress 3.1 glitch and I hope and expect to be better in the next update.
Even to be honest, I think this updates are too frequent..I would rather update not too often, but updates without bugs.
Though you can try to disable the admin top bar first as I linked in my other post above, to see if it would help.
If this admin wordpress 3.1 slow glitch still remains, then I am right about the bug of this version, and we can only wait for the next update, which I guess it will come after three or four months later.
Let us know, if you have this admin wordpress 3.1 slow problem too!
Yes, my admin menu is painfully slow, especially when trying to add an image. I thought maybe it was just my platform conflicting, but Genesis seems to be a pretty clean platform. Since I’m also seeing these complaints across various themes it makes me think that it is indeed a WP problem. I have blogs that I did not updated yet, and they are just fine. Have to admit I’m regretting this update.
Tina,
Yes, then we all have same problems, hopefully it will be fixed in the next update.
Thanks for leaving message.
I noticed this too and certainly agree that it is way to many updates and problems with bugs. I do jewellerydesign and would rather stick to doing that instead of searching for solutions to mainatain my site up to date.
Best of luck with your sites,
Lena
Hi Lena,
Yes, I would rather not having too frequent updates but less bugs.
Thanks and good luck with your blog too,
Kimi.
I have this exact same issue with a site I have just finished developing – was fine until I went to 3.1 – now very, very slow admin – but the site the user sees works fine, thankfully. If I click on the Posts menu option it simply never loads. If I click Categories from the dashboard and click on the number of posts next the category it SOMETIMES loads the posts after a long while and then I can edit them.
I only have 113 posts and I’ve disabled the admin bar.
This is making updating the content of the site virtually impossible. I really hope we don’t have to wait months for a fix.
Hi Nick,
Did you try to disabling some plugins too? It is obviously wordpress 3.1 bug, but the “updating the content of the site virtually impossible” does sound worse than what I am facing right now.
Because I can update my post, edit and create them easily, just in the first minutes while I am logging to my dashboard is very slow..
Other than that, it runs well, oh the new links feature also seem slowing the admin page too.
I really hope they will fix it, I rather having the old admin features than slow admin.
Kimi.
I don’t think it’s a plugin issue as I have an exact copy (well I think it’s exact) locally and have no issues. This makes me think it’s a connection/host issue, though I have other sites wth the same host and do not have the problem, though my other sites are on a different box.
Doing a trace route does show a few time outs but it’s doing that with all sites, not just the one I’m trying to edit.
Very frustrating, as I love working with WordPress, but this is not good. I really need to find out what’s causing this. All I can say is thankfully the live site the public see works fine – it’s just the admin that’s ‘broken’
Further to my last entry it now appears I do have a connection issue. I’ve had someone else access my admin section through a different service provider and there is no speed issue.
Hi Nick,
Great to know, at least we know what’s wrong.
Yes, indeed hosting plays big part in our blogs.
Have a nice weekend!
Kimi.
That is exactly my thought — the dashboard is so slow that adding or editing pages or posts, uploading media, and everything else to manage or update content feels virtually impossible. Instead of being able to focus on writing great content, it feels like every click just slows things to a halt. How in the world does someone keep up a site this way? I dread sitting down to it now.
Hi Traciah,
How slow is your admin page? Mine is slow, but only in the beginning and it does not really bother me while editing pages or posts..It can be caused by other things as well..
Kind regards,
Kimi.
My site is extremely slow since the update. I talked to the host, which suggested rolling back the update. The result of that was a completely broken blog. I had the host reinstall wordpress and luckily I had a recent back up. I am up and running again, but it is still on 3.1 and it is still extremely slow. Not only the admin, but my blog itself. It is very frustrating.
Hi Jennifer,
I know that feeling, blog down is really frustating..Downgrade wordpress is a really bad idea, I have never done it.
I have made a mistake before updating, I should try in my other dummy blog first to see how it is, but it’s already happened.
May I know where you host your blog? Is it in Godaddy? Many people have slow problems in Godaddy.
Have a nice weekend,
Kimi.
In actual fact since I upgraded to 3.1 for all my blogs I receive Internal Server Errors all the time. My host cannot be the problem because I had the blogs with the same host before and there was no problem.
Not only is it slow in my admin but also loading the site in general. I am getting really frustrated actually. I can’t work like this! I installed new blogs and still nothing works like it used to..so its not a plugin issue or a theme issue.
Oh, that sounds worse than my blog Sarah, I hope it will be fixed..
Though it can probably caused by plugins too.
Actually guess what… after searching some more it appears a lot of people have the same problem. Which is obvious by now. Plus I actually found a suggestion that improved performance for me for one of my new blogs.
As said before…I installed a new blog, with no plugins or themes and just had the default theme, but it was taking too long to load and had an error or two when trying to load pages.
So after I posted here last, I was searching high and low and someone actually suggested something that made me think.
This person was going off on how SEO consultants and guru’s tell people to do the /%postname%/ tag for the custom url structure.
Up to then, I have sworn blindly by that principle as well. Anyway, he continued to explain that as a programmer and what WordPress themselves are suggesting in the documentation is not to make the database fetch the postname every time. This causes a lot of code for some reason that is unnecessary. He went into a lot of detail actually and by the end of it, I was like “omg!” and then to put it to the test, I changed the structure on one of my blogs.
Now… before it was slow…but now its improved. Not perfect like before I have to admit…but improved loading time and so all I can do is hope that whatever else is slowing wordpress down gets fixed in the next update. In the meantime we will just have to grit our teeth and bear it.
I came to your page because my WordPress Backend drives me crazy and at least I am happy not to be the only one with this issue. I use 3.1.2 and it seems that I can only cross my fingers that this slowness disappears with a new update. At the moment, it is really no fun working with the backend. The site itself loads fine by the way…
1. Test on a browser different than Chrome. Chrome is slow with WP admin.
2. Use Total Cache.
3. Keep only essential plugins.
4. Don’t use Social Bookmark plugins. Insert code directly.
5. Go to .htaccess and add code to increase memory limit and process time. Then save permalinks again. Dont use %postname% permalink. Add date or postid before that. Postid is best for seo and speed.
Report if u have still errors.
Thank you for the tip about Chrome! That made all the difference in the world for me!
Hi Kimi,
i had a similar issue when i upgraded my WP from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1, we did setup Network blogs (two) and the admin interface was slow after the upgrade. I could track down that it was always doing nothing for about 2 minutes. So i started checking, it seams that in case of a blog network WP access the single blogs by there url. We use a load balanced server cluster, which prevents connections from one server to the sites public url. So in my case (maybe others have the same issue) adding the sites url with internal ip of the server to the hosts file solved my issue 🙂
Thank you for this notification Olaf!
Kind regards,
Kimi.
I had this problem at work. We’re behind a firewall that doesn’t allow external http communication (kind of like Olaf’s problem).
The solution was: define(‘WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL’, true);
in wp-config. Now it’s faster than ever.