Very High CPU/Memory Usage After Theme Change

Has anyone else experienced this issue after a theme change?

Fortunately not that I’m aware of. Which theme did you switch to and what did you switch from?

The new theme should not do that ever but if that’s the only change you’ve made then the theme would be my guess too.

I switched from the avenue theme to a gonzo responsive theme

I once purchased a theme that seemed to cause a lot of wheel-spinning. These might help:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=Theme-Check
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=Theme+Authenticity+Checker

That’s a good idea leejosepho. ??

Those two plugin searches should lead you to plugins that may help you figure out what’s going on with that new theme. Once you get an idea of where the problem (or before) I suggest you contact the theme author. They may have a fix that can improve your performance with that new theme.

The theme seems to be fine when running through theme check.

However the high cpu issues still exist

Have you asked the theme developer about this?

https://themeforest.net/item/gonzo-clean-responsive-wp-magazine/2415788

We don’t have access to commercial themes so don’t really have a way to help with theme-specific issues – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products

I’m in the process of contacting them now. However my host has recommended posting here to see if a wp developer would be able to answer my question.

The reason they have suggested posting here is because I have already paid media temple to do various tune ups with my database, sql and apache.

I once bought a premium theme that just killed my server. I went ahead and debugged it myself as I didn’t have time to wait and found that they had used the wrong hook and every page hit was running the theme initialization code, which included a ton of database queries and update. May not apply to your situation, but worth a look.

I can’t recall, but I either:

1) Added SAVEQUERIES to wp-config.php. See Save queries for analysis in the Codex page Editing wp-config.php.

or

2) Used the Debug Queries plugin.

Thanks scriptrunner, I’m definitely going to give your recommendation a try as it is a query/database issue according to my host so this seems to narrow it down quite a bit more than anything else I have found.

I would need to turn debugging back on right?

No, I don’t believe SAVEQUERIES needs WP_DEBUG on. Two separate things.