Oh one more question. I run a paid membership site. Is there a way for me to clear out users who have subscribed to topics if they stop paying and I don't want them to get notifications? Right now I move a customer who stops paying to "Guest" which gives them no access.....but what happens on the back end? Are they still getting notifications of new topics?
Thanks. Just a report back.... I disabled my smtp plugin and it worked very fast. However I can't just send email with the default server php so I installed Mailbank (turned off email logging), turned off logging and setup sending through mailgun API and there was a HUGE improvement. It still takes a few extra seconds when I add a topic into a forum that has a lot of subscribers but it's no longer taking the site down or causing an issue.
I tried that email que plugin but it didn't work...emails wouldn't go out. Probably cause I have WP Cron off and am running it with a regular cron.
