Comments on: WordPress is a CPU hog – use caching plugins!

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:08:13 +0000

@klou: You may also want to make sure your site hasn’t been hacked. We had one client whose site was using gigabytes of CPU and getting 20 visits a day. It was because of a hacker.

By: klou

klou — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:22:46 +0000

Thanks, i wondered why my little-traffic websites have problems with cpu & ram usage.

By: Harder

Harder — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:16:42 +0000

Sorry for HTML, please fix it.

By: Harder

Harder — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:15:14 +0000

I use on my blog this free cache plugin: wordpress function cache plugin (plugin by TLoF)

By: JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes

JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:07:49 +0000

That was exactly my thought when I wrote Traffic Proofing Wordpress, but one thing I pointed out that you should mention is the fact that many, many plugins don’t play nice with caching plugins at all, especially ones that do counting, statistics, voting, polling, etc. In my post I like to Omninoggin, who has customized both Popularity Contest and WP-PostViews to do “javascript” counting to get around the caching issue.
Still to this day I can’t use any kind of caching on my main site because I get all kinds of 500 errors.