Comments on: Optimizing WordPress database performance

By: Bird

Bird — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:14:43 +0000

I have tried WP super cache but.. I found some problem that I have no idea what the problem is.

So that I un-install it already

By: trkyrd

trkyrd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:54:34 +0000

is this how it should be? i have the same problem but i am not sure how to do it.. please the check below..

function is_blog_installed() {
global $wpdb;

// Check cache first. If options table goes away and we have true cached, oh well.
if ( wp_cache_get( 'is_blog_installed' ) )
return true;

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:37:33 +0000

I use Dreamhost as my server and they told me they dont support WP problem for plugins like YARPP because it creates lots of php queries and over load the server...

By: Eastmobiles

Eastmobiles — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:05:42 +0000

Thanks for this great post, I came to find that wordpress consumes too much resources, which is a pain in the neck.

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By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:03:10 +0000

Hey Tammy,while I didn't know it at the time of writing (probably because it didn't exist yet), W3 Total Cache is probably the best speed improving, database caching etc. plugin there is for WordPress out there at the moment.

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:58:26 +0000

I just thought that I'd post my findings. I still had quite a few problems with the most recent YARPP. When it first scans all the posts, it brought the server to a crawl. Then every time a post was saved it would take more than a minute to save. Switching to Efficient Related posts took that save time down to 2-3 seconds.

By: Tammy Camp

Tammy Camp — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:48:45 +0000

Is there a definitive conclusion for a wordpress database optimizer after all of this? Seems like a lot of mixed opinions on all of them in these comments.

By: mitcho

mitcho — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:32:18 +0000

Sean, MTG, unfortunately this post and many of the comments were written right before my April release of YARPP 3.0 which was a major rewrite of YARPP for performance reasons. YARPP 3.0+ uses a very smart caching system to only run each "relatedness" computation once, so it is much more efficient now. In fact, Efficient Related Posts which was released more recently uses this same technique as well. I invite you to give YARPP a second look and let me know if you still have performance issues with it.

By: mitcho

mitcho — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:23:42 +0000

Harsh, please note that the "signature" you note can be turned off and should be off by default. As I also mentioned elsewhere, since you made this comment YARPP's performance has been drastically improved. I invite you to give it a second look. :)

By: mitcho

mitcho — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:22:24 +0000

Joost et al,

I invite you to try YARPP again, perhaps first on a test site, as YARPP 3.0 (released just after this post and your comments in April of this year) introduced a caching feature which makes it so each relatedness calculation is only done once. YARPP 3.0+ is now much more efficient.

By: minakshi (minakshi)

minakshi (minakshi) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:27:14 +0000

Optimizing WordPress database performance http://tinyurl.com/cbz876

By: Carlos Guevara

Carlos Guevara — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:09:15 +0000

I don't Recommend using YARPP with any version because it's very heavy CPU usage is very high when using it , I made a test on both shared hosting also on my local server .
It eats up your server memory and CPU

By: MTG

MTG — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:34:21 +0000

I had to stop using YARPP as it was causing high resource usage and my site was going down. I do use WP-Super-Cache, WP-Widgets-Cache and DB-Cache for some performance optimization of my Wordpress blog. But I am still not fully satisfied.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:55:14 +0000

YARPP is the prettiest but a total performance nightmare. We just had to can it on all of our WP sites as it was causing major problems. Efficient Related Posts is much better, more intelligent design, and not dynamic at post generation time (static meta data embed in posts done at post save time).

By: steve

steve — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:30:03 +0000

Does the results of this plugin consider whether WP Super Cache is installed ?

For example , I have Super Cache installed. Debug queries tells me I have 50 queries for a page. Have these queries been actually executed provided that Super Cache is on ?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:01:27 +0000

What useful info about a useful plugin! Just what I was after! My host has been very patient with my blog burning too many cpu cycles. With this plugin, I've reduced the number of db queries to more acceptable levels.

Excellent stuff!

Cheers,

Alex

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By: AYOSIN.COM | stop dreaming start action

AYOSIN.COM | stop dreaming start action — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:22:44 +0000

Many thanks, this exactly what I needed, I'm building something other than a blog, but using wordpress as a framework, some of my pages weigh in at 90 queries right now and I need to cut that down as much as I can