Hi Guys,

I'm importing from bbpress around 40k posts, and the system gets super slow.

Is there a limit for wpforo?

I tried it 10 times (with clean installs) and the result is always the same, I need to import 700k posts from a bbpress forum.

Thanks

Ok, I see the table indexes were not reset or those have not even been set during migration process. wpForo is designed and tested for 5-10M posts. The 700k should work without any issue. Please contact us via support[at]gvectors.com email address. We'll need database access to check and fix this issue.

Also please let me know your hosing service type and parameters.

Thank you Robert,

Unfortunately I was not allowed to provide access to our project/server. I debugged the wpforo's theme and looks like the issue is in theme_name/wpforo/layouts/1/forum.php line 31.

$topics = $wpforo->topic->get_topics( array("forumids" => $data, "orderby" => "type, modified", "order" => "DESC", "row_count" => $wpforo->forum_options['layout_extended_intro_topics_count'] ) )

I have 80 forums showing in the home, and it executes that query each.

It's taking less than a second per forum to return the latest topics, but all combined takes 15-18 seconds to finish loading.

Any advice to fix this would be great.

Thanks.

Update: Looks like using the simplified view helps a lot reducing 15 seconds of load time. 

Please change the forum layouts to Simplified. The Extended layout gets 10 time more info to display latest topics. If you have many forums we don't recommend use the extended layout, it doesn't matter how many posts you have. You should only change forum layouts for the Categories, you don't need to change forums, they'll inherits it from categories.

I have the same problem. I converted from smf to bbpress and later from bbpress to wpforo and my forum is slow! I have 184 Forums, 15.4K Topics, 283.4K Posts. The other issue I'm having is that buttons (delete, edit etc.) aren't working or at least it seems like it's not working. It does the job (except for deleting) but you get no confirmation. And the TinyMCE Editor is not showing either. Is there anyone who can help me out?

Another thing, the shortcode [wpforo item=”forum” id=”2″] is not working right.

There are a few things that can speed your WP and wpForo plugin.

The first is to switch to PHP 7, if you you haven't done that already. Big difference in speed and in memory usage.

The second is to use a caching plugin. Page or whatever your plan allows. Right now wpForo doesn't actually work together with ANY caching plugin and you have to exclude the page, but that will change in the future (i hope gVectors Team will work on this). Forum posts/topics in their nature are getting old and not updated often and so they will benefit from page caching a lot. Also people that are on a LiteSpeed web server should check Litespeed cache plugin for WP.

Posted by: Souza

I have the same problem. I converted from smf to bbpress and later from bbpress to wpforo and my forum is slow! I have 184 Forums, 15.4K Topics, 283.4K Posts. The other issue I'm having is that buttons (delete, edit etc.) aren't working or at least it seems like it's not working. It does the job (except for deleting) but you get no confirmation. And the TinyMCE Editor is not showing either. Is there anyone who can help me out?

We'd need admin access to be able check the issue. wpForo should not be slow even with 1m or more forums. We're testing and designing wpForo for large forums. Please send admin login details to support[at]gvectors.com email address. I think something is not correctly migrated to wpForo database. This is a migration issue.

Posted by: Robert

 

Posted by: Souza

I have the same problem. I converted from smf to bbpress and later from bbpress to wpforo and my forum is slow! I have 184 Forums, 15.4K Topics, 283.4K Posts. The other issue I'm having is that buttons (delete, edit etc.) aren't working or at least it seems like it's not working. It does the job (except for deleting) but you get no confirmation. And the TinyMCE Editor is not showing either. Is there anyone who can help me out?

We'd need admin access to be able check the issue. wpForo should not be slow even with 1m or more forums. We're testing and designing wpForo for large forums. Please send admin login details to support[at]gvectors.com email address. I think something is not correctly migrated to wpForo database. This is a migration issue.

   

I sent you the log in details per e-mail.

Sorry for the OT but just got this notification about this Topic (here, this one we are in now):

"Please Moderate: New Reply" & "This post is currently unapproved. You can approve posts in Dashboard » Forums » Moderation admin page."

Also visiting the link to the above reply from "Souza" i see:

Awaiting moderation but i can see the post.

And of cource i'm not a moderator in this Forum 🙂

I sent you the log in details per e-mail.

We fixed most of issues. There was conflict with Auto-optimizer plugin. Please make sure you don't have plugins which conflicts with wpForo (ignore SEO plugins). All list is here:

https://wpforo.com/community/faq/conflicts-with-other-plugins/

However the main problem comes from your server. It's in very bad condition and it can't work well with your website. i think the resources are very weak or website is heavy. You should change your hosting service or make it more powerful. We're getting Internal 500 server error on each second page load. it doesn't mean you're in Dashboard, on front-end or on forum page. Your server can't perform this site requests, it's to weak or incorrectly configured.:

wpForo works fine and fast if the cache plugin is disabled. I think the cache plugin tries to work with server with mod_fcgid of your server. It doesn't work well and the cache plugin becomes slower and gets stuck.

Currently we disabled Cache, so now Forum works fast.

Thank you, it works fine now. I knew about the hosting, that will be moved to a bigger server this week and that should solve that problem. Thanks for your support, it's really appreciated!

I disabled WP Super Cache and the result is even worse, 31 seconds to load with 288k posts and 80 forums.

I noticed you use it in your site, would you send me the configuration you use for WP Super Cache?

Thanks.

Posted by: jdiaz

 

I disabled WP Super Cache and the result is even worse, 31 seconds to load with 288k posts and 80 forums.

I noticed you use it in your site, would you send me the configuration you use for WP Super Cache?

 

Thanks.

   

Just to clear things. NO caching plugin works well with wpForo. They cache all pages and if something is added/changed/deleted, the caching plugin (page caching) displays the old ones.

So again, the wpForo base page should EXCLUDED in your PAGE caching plugin.

Having said that, your problem apparently is that you ARE caching wpForo and after removing WPSC ... you do not. In the first case you just display a STATIC html page and on the second wpForo does the job.

What php version do you use ? What kind of hosting plan ?

PAGE caching plugins COULD be used ok with wpForo with a very short TTL, like 1-3 minutes, so everything is refreshed quickly. But that somehow is not what most people want with a caching plugin.

(i post PAGE caching in capital because db or object caching is something else, only supported (badly) from W3TC plugin)