Few days ago I got complain from my hosting company that my website which is WordPress produced high CPU usage all the time.
Below are what I’ve done to fix the problem:
- I disabled all plugins in WordPress. Result: failed.
- I switched to default twenty-ten WordPress themes while still disabled all plugins. Result: failed.
- I logged in to CPanel and opened phpmyadmin to check WordPress tables. I found wp_options table got 16MB in size. I removed some entries in that table and made it slim to 1MB size. I removed all revision posts. Result: success.
Now CPU utilization is decreased.
Actually what I’ve deleted were some entries created by Google Analytic Dashboard and Social Discussion plugins. Because of this problem, I am not using these two plugins anymore.
Example of query:
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name like 'gad_%'
Instead of manually deleted the entries, you can use Clean Options plugin to delete orphaned wp_options entries.
Another thing is to remove revision posts. I use Better Delete Revision plugin and I managed to delete 2800+ revision posts and made WordPress database slimmer.
