PaulieP

Great, thanks for the insight, looking forward to the next release. Thanks.

Actually I found 3.1 and installed it and I can confirm that 3.1 to 3.2 breaks my theme and the front page featured story slider, and the news ticker that is on all my pages.

The issue is only with 3.2. No previous version ever caused this problem. Any insights as to what changed between 3.1 and 3.2 that would interfere in this way? Thanks.

Not resolved. I changed the shortcode and it did absolutely nothing.

Note – it appears whether I have the plugin Settings set to list or calendar/grid view.

Individual event views work, and the event widget works to show a list of upcoming events, and the plugin appears to be functioning otherwise. However anyone trying to view a list or grid of events, admin or regular user, gets the Forbidden message. Frustrating.

Thing is, my theme uses timthumb extensively and so does one of my popular post sliders – they are still active when I deactivate NextGen Gallery, and the site has zero problems. literally 100% uptime with no memory leaks or CPU spikes.

Now, if I activate NGG it’s guaranteed to take my site down in a few hours and I have to reset the VPS. This is going on as we speak. If I deactivate the plugin, I have zero resource issues and the site runs smooth with no memory leaking and no CPU utilization spiking. Both are directly caused by having NGG enabled. Multiple web hosts have told me this at this point.

Is anyone else having similar problems? I’ve seen others post about it in webhosting forums but never saw clear resolution. It seems NGG does not scale well

And apparently there was some recent spam exploiting the fact that the contributor role has the wrong settings allowing posts to publish through.

Anyone?

As an update, in /admin I renamed two files:
install.php
upgrade.php

to .bak extensions.

My high utilization issues from mysql stopped. Instead of spikes up to 40-110 on CPU utilization, average load is now under 1 and my site is now noticeably faster on average.

I suspect bots and search engines?

Hmm. No gallery exceeds 350 images and some are 100-200 images. would the query fetch more than the number of images inside a single gallery?

Also would exploits trying to use the upgrade and install php files also be a potential issue? Should I remove them?

19023 Images
124 Galleries
12 Albums

I have seen insane CPU and Memory usage spikes at random, for example when I log into my hosting control panel, sometimes the site is super slow and it shows average CPU load of over 50 and sometimes over 100 (not percentage mind you) then drops back down (or Apache goes down and http has to be restarted)

I dont know if this is an exploit or let’s say bots/spiders trying to index the galleries or what. Very stumped.

Oh i forgot, this is on all browsers. And I am using WP 3.02, problem is exactly the same as it was a year ago on WP 2.X. Thanks.

I also need this to be multi-widget. Are you able to send to me or post here the code modifications? Thanks for your work!

paul @ txmma.com

Tried this on a different domain of mine, different WP 3.0 install, different VPS host, exact same error. First domain I installed via FTP upload. Second domain I installed from within the WP Admin. No other caching plugins are installed.

Using WinMerge and trial and error, I discovered:

If you install 1.6.3 and overwrite its the-events-calendar.class.php
with the one from 1.6.2, I get normal behavior back again under WP 3.0.

Also, this one line in the-events-calendar.class.php is the source of my error (blank page when posting):

if( is_string($_POST[$htmlElement]) ) $_POST[$htmlElement] = filter_var($_POST[$htmlElement], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

If I remove this I get normal behavior.