andrewbanchich

anyone?

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anyone? any help? i’d really appreciate it. here’s my blog if it helps.

I’ve tried reinstalling many times, and it does almost nothing for me. I’ve become an expert at WordPress optimization lately because of this problem. I would switch to BlueHost right away, however I did a search to see who people like better and there are a lot of very bad reviews of them out there, and I’m not sure what to believe. It seems like the web is full of fake reviews of both godaddy and bluehost and other hosting companies that i don’t know if anything that i read is anything more than someone trying to switch people over.

Why do you supposed Godaddy can’t serve WordPress very well? Wouldn’t their servers be just as good as anyone else’s? Why would BlueHost be able to serve WordPress better?

I thought I was the only one! Now I’m considering switching to another host. However, I don’t know how to manually install WordPress. I tried and tried and it is waaaay too complicated for me. Are there any hosting companies anyone could recommend that serves WordPress fast and can install it automatically for you? How’s bluehost?

okay, thanks for your help!

Worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

I searched for a question about this but I couldn’t find it, sorry.

And I am a beginner at php so I wouldn’t want to break anything.

Sorry, here’s the code:

<div class="pages">
   <ul>
   <li<?php if ( is_front_page() ) echo ' class="current_page_item"'; ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><span>Home</span></a></li>
<?php $pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = preg_replace('%<a ([^>]+)>%U','<a $1><span>', $pages);
$pages = str_replace('</a>','</span></a>', $pages);
echo $pages; ?>
  </ul>
<? unset($pages); ?>
 </div>

I had slow loading problems too and used Advertising Manager when I did. When I deactivated it the site seemed to load extremely fast, and seems to still load very fast even after I activated it again. Very strange.

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OMG, i forgot that part, haha.

https://ragnarockmusic.com/

YES! I’ve been seeing this for a while now and was wondering what the problem is! I have been using https://www.webpagetest.org/ like crazy constantly disabling one plugin testing, disabling another, retesting, repeating. It seemed to be working for a day and my site was taking about 10-13 seconds to load, but then i added a couple more plugins and it’s back to anywhere from 20-50 seconds to load, even with WP-Super Cache (w/ Gzip), and several other load time decreasing plugins running.

I called GoDaddy many times thinking there was something wrong with the server and I got many different answers, from “you have too many http requests” to “too many images” to “you have to optimize your database.” I am getting fed up with this. I just want WP to load like any other site!!!

My admin pages also take a very long time to load, sometimes over a minute! What do I do???

I would try to do a clean install but I am not familiar with backing up wordpress so I don’t want to attempt to do that and then restore all my posts and content, because I am too afraid it would not work and everything would be gone…

I use this for images: https://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php

And this is the best page loading analysis site I could find and it has helped me immensely: https://www.webpagetest.org/

Btw, my music site just posted a new article on rap and hip hop that you might like. Check it out: https://ragnarockmusic.com/2009/07/05/an-introduction-to-raphip-hop

Can anyone tell me about how long it takes to load in your browser? Is it fast or slow?