Extremely slow posting in WP 1.5

You guys might want to consider repairing your MySQL database.

https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/repair/

In my case it has nothing to do with a slow server, large database etc. , as mentioned it happens on a fast server, clean install with 1 post in the database.

My problem is only with wp-admin/index.php. Something must be slowing the loading of this page down, it takes 20-30 seconds to load.

I’m also on 1and1, but I doubt that I’m anywhere close to 800,000 words – my blog only has about 150 posts total. Anyways I don’t know where I could look to count it.

I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with the MySQL db, as this problem *only* happens when we publish posts where there are links. Saving the posts in the db as drafts is instant. And if as mirdin says the problem of slow publishing occurs right after a clean install, then…

It feels like a bug in the code – maybe it’s still pinging all the links even though the option is not checked?

Anyways I just looked and there’s no overhead for any of my tables – all is well ??

To all with slow posting:

I’ve noticed this as well. It does not appear to be an issue with sql (since is saves quickly) nor with your host. It is a bug with the pingback feature. It is slow because it wants to ping every site, when it hits a site that doesn’t accept pingbacks, it waits the timeout period before trying the next. This is also why you notice it with the more links you have in a post.

If you stop the page load after you submit and its hanging and view the main page, you’ll notice its there, its already published. The only thing it was still trying to do is pingback/trackback the other sites.

If you know you have a page with lots of links, none of which need to be pinged/trackedback you can cancel the page load so it just stops trying.

My firewall doesn’t allow the apache user to make outgoing connections to port 80. That was causing the 30 seconds log-in delay.

Now I have to figure out why and to where wordpress is trying to connect when I log in to wp-admin/index.php

I just installed 1.5 and everything works great except that comments take 30 to 45 seconds to post.

I’m betting it is something trying to make a network call out and the ISP is blocking it, resulting in a timeout. No difference if I include links in the comments or not.

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I posted this in my thread about WP saves taking so long, but I think it may have value to this thread as well. I deactivated all of the plugins, as suggested. That didn’t help. However, this did, I had a long list of ping sites listed. When I deleted all but pingomatic, it seemed to solve the problem.

I hope this will be helpful to my fellow WP’ers.

If your Blog server has no internet connection (e.g. Intranet’s or like mirdin’s case..)
Comment the lines starting
$rss = @fetch_rss(…
in wp-admin/index.php

Our website was having the same slow loading problem, but when we deleted all the sites that get pinged, it’s now fast. Now the question is which are the best ping sites to use, instead of all 40+ ping sites.

Where do you delete all the sites that get pinged? Are there really 40+ sites? I can only see one (https://rpc.pingomatic.com/) in the Writing Options.

I am experiencing the same thing. It’s definitely not a server issue…

Not a server issue, but a WP issue. It must be. I have a few clients with the same problem and they are in diferent machines, with 0.10 of load, MySQL runing OK, etc.

No new ideas about this?

The slow posting is due to both the ping Update Services function and the function that pings articles linked to in the post. WordPress will ping all of the links that you have entered into the post and then wait for a response from the pinged server (the link). If the remote server is slow to respond, then WP is slow to react.

I just had “https://yada.yada.com/……..” in multiple spots in my post and I removed “https://” from it. Sure, its not a clickable link now, but at least I don’t have to wait 55 seconds to continue writing. What a drag.