Really slow after clicking “Publish”

Where are you pinging ?
If one of those sites is down, it will slow things.

Switch off pinging.
Does it speed up ?

Thanks for the reply. No – no links in the posts in question. I mean – some DO have links and lag, but plenty don’t and still take their time.

I see in other posts over the last few days others having issues – but it seems that some don’t have the same issue… of not having any links/pingbacks in the posts. Switching off didn’t make any difference.

At least it’s not critical – just mildly annoying and I tend to not post as much with it going on.

This has happened on my sites in the last few days too, and we have pingbacks turned off.

I tried removing “https://rpc.pingomatic.com/” from my list of update services in Writing Optionsm but that didn’t help either.

This is really strange as it seems to be something outside my site – my server has a very low load and responds very quickly to everything but WordPress publishing…

I just posted a plugin to help fix this problem. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/40908

^^ mmoncur said he has pingbacks turned off though, so your plugin wont work. I tried installing it yesterday and it hasn’t seemed to help me either. Still an ultra long delay.

Solution: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/40010#post-255981