Most of the time we all talk about increasing readership, this time why not we will go for performance enhancement. Few days ago one of my subscriber expressed that, he experienced sluggishness on the back end while using WordPress as a CMS with high number of pages. He isn’t the only person who came across this problem, a lot of WP users experience related problem generally. Question is whether these problems resides in the core of WP or occasionally forced by some other issues? Actually there is no simple answer for that, any CMS whether Drupal or Wordpress can experience same issues caused by numerous reasons without anything to do with the core itself. I will keep the focus of the discussion on the WordPress (self hosted) related issues to narrow it down. Why not we turn the spotlight on the fundamental reasons first, so that it would be easier to eliminate them? Your WP (WordPress) powered site may experience sluggishness for- MySQL server or connection issues. PHP Memory Limit. Apache log rotator problem (for Apache server). Broken/Degraded PHP code in template/theme files. Excessive plugin uses/ use of plugin(s) with broken codes. Some particular third party widgets/ JavaScript codes. WordPress Dashboard’s display of RSS feeds Pingback attempts when posting There are many other reasons which might trigger sluggishness, but one way or another related to above mentioned causes. Now that we know what makes our WP site’s slow down (Back end or front end), let’s turn our focus on how to avoid these.

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