The other day my host said I must reduce rows in database as there was over a million, which is their limit.  We did this.

Then, a couple of days ago they said "the account is still using a much higher amount of CPU than most of the accounts on the server with similar traffic, so additional optimization should be done."

I have been trying to look into this and saw that there were far more visitors than I would expect, up to 5.6k some days.  So today I added CloudFlare.

Now I have just received an email from host saying that "the resource usage for this account is not only high, but has increased."   I have no idea why it is increasing.

They say my choices are "to either remove the WPForo plugin or move the account to a proper hosting environment immediately."

It is a non-profit site run as a hobby and there is no way a VPS can be afforded.

Is there anything I can do?

This is a problem in two ways: automated crawlers hitting these URLs cause load spikes, but even a legitimate logged-in member clicking "mark all read" would wait 15–30 seconds for the action to complete. Please check this image https://ibb.co/0jpwdLnS

Could you advise:

1. What does foro=allread do internally that could take this long? Is it iterating over all topics across all forums per request?
2. Are there settings to limit its scope, or is this a known performance issue with a fix or workaround?
3. Is this improved in a newer wpForo version?

My environment, for reference: wpForo v3.1.2 , WordPress on Cloudways (NGINX/PHP-FPM Lightning stack), Elasticsearch via ElasticPress, Redis object cache, Cloudflare Enterprise in front.

Thank you — happy to provide logs, screenshots, or temporary access for either issue.

Warm regards,
Sarmad
paradigmshift.com.pk

I want to enable the "like" option for visitors, but it is disabled in the "Access" section.
Is there a way to enable it?

Thanks.

If setting the excerpt length to 0, the autorefresh is disabled. It is impossible to set the excerpt to 0. Only 1 character is possible.

By the way: Please consider to let there be an excerpt for "Recent Topics", too.

I purchsed WP Discuz Widgets, but I miss a similar designed simple widget like the ones in WPForo. I would like to present them in a grid of three columns. And the WPDiscuz-Widget does not match the design of WPForo.

Thanks, 
miednr

I have cleared all the WPForo caches and my hosting says that WPForo is excluded from all caches. 

I am using WPForo v3.1.1 and I would appreciate any suggestions to cure this issue for half a dozen of my 2,500 forum users.

Thanks

• Ultimate forum links are set to /user/
• wpForo links are set to /member/

The widget updates all of the buttons to point to /user/ except for the "favored" button. That button directs to the wpForo profile page. There isn't a place to change the link or add/remove buttons.

I cleared cache and flushed Permalinks.

What is the best solution for this, or where can it be edited in the code, function, etc?

Slightly off-topic, the same thing happens with messages. Better Messages support isn't offered by wpForo, but it is integrated with UM on the UM profile page. Understandably, there is only a message button when the wpForo private message plugin is active, but it doesn't know to point to the UM messages tab. Also understandable, but it would be better if there was a way to easily edit button links or add custom buttons. Especially since the wpForo notifications function doesn't really integrate well with anything else outside of wpForo.

Can I migrate the "latest version" of that forum onto my new website - therefore capturing and overwriting the forum to show the latest post in threads etc..

And if so, how please. What's the best process to use, any plugins needed ?

Thanks in advance for any assistance..