Wordpress CPU Usage is crazy!

A few days ago, I my account was suspended. I am on a shared hosting and get about 300 unique visits a day. That is fairly a small amount of traffic to cause a problem on a shared hosting environment.

I have googled “Wordpress CPU Usage” and found that the problem is not only isolated to my blog. A lot of people are also complaining on the same issue.

I think this is a problem on the Wordpress code. I have read somewhere that at times, it (wordpress) queries the database at least 20 times to display the frontpage! Yikes!

Anyway, for those who are also experiencing this problem, I suggest that you install the following plugins: WP-SuperCache and Bad Behavior. I have gone an extra step by removing the Tag Cloud. I replaced it with direct links (hard-coded) to the tag pages. I also installed Optimize DB - a wordpress plugin that optimizes your database with a single click.


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Posts about WordPress Plugins as of December 19, 2008 | The Lessnau Lounge added these pithy words on Dec 20 08 at 2:46 am

Very informative post. keep up the good work.

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