Serious performance hit

[Bart]

Hi,

Our site recently suffered a serious performance hit, causing the frontend to load in 30+ seconds and our backend to have frequent time-out issues. In good-old WordPress fashion we disabled all plugins which fixed our performance issues. One of the main culprits is the Events Calendar (and it’s many sub-plugins). I do realise that The Events Calendar is one of the bigger plugins and that it’s unavoidable it has an impact on performance.

The problem seems that every one of our plugins and the theme on itself work fine, but combined, it all goes down the drain. We cannot afford to employ a WordPress developer just to have a default blog, calendar and some other functionality so we had to make the hard decision to strip out the calendar and all other things and nice-to-haves for now.

One of our solutions would be to split of the blog in a separate sub-site. And to have the main WordPress only contain some pages and the calendar. Would that be a good solution? Or is it insane to split of a blog in WordPress just to be able to run a calendar and some other things?

What’s your opinion?
Thanks

[Andras]

Hello Bart,

Firstly, a big thanks for using our plugins. And thanks for reaching out!

I’m really sorry you are having this performance issue. I’d be glad to help you find the cause of this.

When did the performance issues start? Was it after an update of the plugin? An update of WordPress? An update of … ?

Did you also manage to test having only the Calendar plugins activated and nothing else? Do you still have performance issues then?

How many events do you approximately have? And do you have any recurring events?

If you have recurring events, could you check if their rules are still in place or if something got mixed up with that? (1-2 similar issues have been reported.)

On the idea of separating the blog and the calendar, I believe that would only be reasonable, if you have a high traffic blog with lots (hundreds or rather thousands) of posts, custom posts, lots of customizations and whatnot. If you have a pretty simple blog with 1-2 posts a day, then separating it from the calendar will not have such an impact.

Also I see in your system information that you are using an older version of our plugins. After creating a full backup of your site run an update and check if that changes anything.

I’m looking forward to solving this with you.

Cheers,
Andras

 

 

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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