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You must have done something – you are loading very quickly now!

That definitely shouldn’t be the issue. My site has way more going on than yours and it loads much faster. It seems to me that just *connecting* is taking the longest time. It makes me think there is a problem with your server, your nameserver/registrar, or maybe something in your htaccess file or firewall is slowing things down.

Most plugins that install tables don’t remove the tables when you deactivate them. Those tables shouldn’t hamper performance, but I could be wrong. You could remove them and see if it makes a difference.

When you did the repair+optimize, were all the tables selected (checked off)?

I’m uncertain what comes next. hmmm…

cpanel usually comes with phpmyadmin. However, some versions of cpanel also have a databases icon. If you click on that, you will see a ‘modify’ section and the ability to select a database and repair it. Do you see either of those options (phpmyadmin or the database icon)?

Do you have phpMyadmin access? If so, I’d start by doing an optimize and repair on the database.

Other than that, it’s difficult to know your problem based on the limited info. you’ve provided. Are you self-hosted? Shared hosting? If shared, it could be your host that is slow.

Another note I forgot to mention is related to users.

Do you have PhpMyadmin access? If so, go into the users table and see if there are duplicate users with admin access. Clean any duplicates out and change the login and password for remaining admins.

Go to the dashboard>tools>export menu. Once there, do an export. If I understand how WordPress does these, it will export only the parts you need to keep your posts, comments etc.

After that, you can re-install WordPress.

A couple more notes:

1. If you were infected, it is very likely your theme was infected. You may have to start with a clean theme.

2. You may have infected files in your wp-content, plugins and uploads folders. When you reinstall, replace all your plugins with new ones. Also, go through your uploads folder and look for suspicious files in there.

I was infected quite badly and was able to clean things up and recover. Good luck. ??

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