Hi Mike,
WP Offload Media Support Team here. Thanks for reaching out with your query, we would be happy to assist!
We don’t recommend modifying the URLs in the database directly. WP Offload Media rewrites URLs on-the-fly to make it more compatible with other plugins that may rely on these images.
One of the reasons why a site slows down is a plugin that accesses images on your server. If Remove Local Media is enabled, some plugins tries to access the images directly on your bucket. This could cause some performance issue.
Another possible reason is an issue with object caching, if you are using one. WP Offload Media caches the rewritten URLs so that it doesn’t have to always check the database. If the plugin detects that you have object caching, it uses that instead of saving the URLs in the postmeta table.
It’s possible that there’s an error happening during the rewrite process. If debugging is not enabled on your site, please try editing your wp-config.php file and replace this line –
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false );
With these lines –
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
This means that any errors are logged to /wp-content/debug.log
, because some errors are not visible on screen. More details about that at https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/#wp_debug
Try editing a page again, then check your debug.log file for any errors. WP Offload Media logs its errors with “AS3CF” so you can search your debug.log file for that string to see if our plugin is experiencing some issues.
Let us know how it goes for you.