Title: Comment Checking slows down site
Last modified: December 6, 2019

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# Comment Checking slows down site

 *  Resolved [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/)
 * I have a pretty extensive badge system using Gamipress on my site. It’s *great*
   and drives engagement way up. One issue I’ve pinpointed is that it also slows
   the site down, because a lot of the badges involve comments. So, every time a
   user posts a comment, the system is checking and running through it’s processes
   to perform triggers based on commenting. Is there any optimization or prioritization
   or anything I should be looking to do on my server or anything to help make this
   process faster? I have a lot of members commenting and it really grinds things
   down to a halt. Any advice would be great. I have already turned off the logs
   option, so only events are being logged – but of course comments are an event
   so they get logged because they trigger all sorts of things.
 * I’m not a programmer so I can’t provide any information beyond this, but it’s
   definitely and issue, and not surprising, really. Maybe there’s nothing to be
   done about it, or avoid issuing badges that relate to comments?
 * EDIT – checked all this out using the wp plugin query monitor, although I’d already
   suspected Gamipress background checking was slowing things down, as another site
   of mine with essentially the same plugins and commenting system is posting comments
   much much faster. Cheers.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Ruben Garcia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/)
 * (@rubengc)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12218243)
 * Hi [@peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * Is possible that GamiPress can slow down some process if you includes several
   of awards to them
 * For example, for the “Comment on a post” event, if you configure 20 requirements(
   points awards, deducts, steps and rank requirements) it could make the comment
   publishing process slow down since GamiPress needs to check if the user is able
   to earn something
 * Also there could be extra processes if user should earn something more like an
   extra achievement, or earn extra points
 * For that, the way you can speed up some process is reducing the number or requirements
   that are using this event (for example, if you have 20 achievements looking for“
   comment on a post”, reduce them to 10)
 * The GamiPress awards engine is developed to run as faster as possible, but is
   comprehensible that will run slower if is required to perform several checks 
   on a single action
 * Anyway, something that we can’t solve is the case that your server is reaching
   it’s limits
    I mean, on a clean install, without GamiPress, your comment system
   probably works faster because there isn’t the GamiPress extra checks, is completely
   logical because there isn’t this extra process behind each comment
 * But the same will happen if you compare a clean WordPress vs a WordPress with
   forums (bbPress), frontend profiles (BuddyPress) and/or shop (WooCommerce), is
   completely evidently that plugins adds extra processes and they will increase
   the requirements on your server since there are extra processes (for all the 
   extra features plugin offers)
 * Hope it helps you to understand better how GamiPress and plugins works and the
   way to find a solution to fix the comments slow down
 * Best regards
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12220832)
 * Yes, I have literally dozens of awards that rely on commenting on a specific 
   post 🙁 I kind of figured that there was no way around it, and understand. Giving
   awards for commenting on a specific post has really increased engagement…I’ll
   have to give some thought to how to maintain engagement without requiring those
   comments – members visit specific pages with ‘challenges’ on them each month,
   and get credit for ‘completing’ a challenge by posting a comment or a video for
   review. I suppose I could get them to tick a box or something…
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12220885)
 * Here’s a follow up question to this – is there a way to ‘archive’ some of the
   achievements checking for comments? For example, if there’s a badge that a user
   can earn for commenting on a post that was made in January, and I don’t want 
   the user to be able to earn that badge NOW, can I do so? Basically, let users
   who have already earned the January badge keep the points earned, and show that
   they’ve earned it on their list of achievements, but somehow remove it from the
   list of checks Gamipress runs through?
 *  Plugin Author [Ruben Garcia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/)
 * (@rubengc)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12223108)
 * Hi [@peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * We are looking to release the update 1.7.9 with only performance and security
   changes
 * One of the performance changes will be to improve our checks and make specific
   events (like “Comment on a specific post”) much faster, so is probable that with
   the update you won’t require to make any change on your setup to fix the slow
   downs
 * Actually, 1.7.9 is targeted for next week, if you like, at the moment our development
   version gets this performance fixes I can let you know to download it before 
   the 1.7.9 release,
 * So please, let me know if you want to proceed in this way or you prefer to wait
   until 1.7.9 release
 * Best regards
 *  Plugin Author [Ruben Garcia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/)
 * (@rubengc)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12223753)
 * Hi [@peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * There is the 1.7.9 beta release with the fix to your issue:
    [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gamipress.1.7.9-beta.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gamipress.1.7.9-beta.zip)
 * You need to install it manually by deactivating and removing GamiPress and uploading
   this version
 * Or, if you don’t want to test this version you can always wait for the definitive
   1.7.9 release
 * Best regards
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12228426)
 * Wow, thanks [@rubengc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/) – I’ll go
   ahead and try out the beta! I love how Gamipress has increased engagement in 
   my site 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12228571)
 * As to my other question, is there a way to archive or ‘close’ older badges so
   that they’re no longer achievable, and no longer figure in to checks?
 *  Plugin Author [Ruben Garcia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/)
 * (@rubengc)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12230015)
 * Hi [@peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * The important elements to “achieve” and don’t get checked by GamiPress is the
   achievement steps (points awards, points deducts, steps and rank requirements
   are the elements checked, achievements and ranks are checked as consequence of
   the completion of their steps)
 * There are 2 solutions you can apply:
 * 1) Disable the achievement steps through the top control, explained here:
    [https://gamipress.com/docs/getting-started/requirements-ui/#top-controls](https://gamipress.com/docs/getting-started/requirements-ui/#top-controls)
 * Disabling the requirement won’t make them disappear on the awards engine check,
   only will make them fall on the first check where GamiPress checks if the requirement
   has been disabled
 * 2) Save the achievement steps in some way and remove them
    A possible quick way
   you can perform it is by taking screenshots of your setup and attaching them 
   to your achievement, in this way you can remove all steps and store a screenshot
   of the old setup
 * There is a plugin that let’s you attach images to your WordPress posts (GamiPress
   achievements are WordPress posts, like WooCommerce products):
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachments/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachments/)
 * Hope it helps
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12233014)
 * Thanks [@rubengc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/) – I’ll give some
   thought to how to make the ‘old’ achievements no longer achievable. Can’t just
   delete them or their display on several pages will be messed up. I’ll look at
   disabling and see how that goes 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * (@peeld)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12247972)
 * I’ll also put in a feature request to have a time limit on badges, if it’s not
   already possible. Say, a badge can be earned between 1/1/2020 and 1/31/2020 but
   after that (or before that) it’s not available. That way it falls out of the 
   loop when comments are checked for achievements without having to go back and
   turn off the requirements 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Ruben Garcia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubengc/)
 * (@rubengc)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-checking-slows-down-site/#post-12249359)
 * Hi [@peeld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peeld/)
 * Thank you so much for your suggestion, we will take it in count for future updates
   or for possible new add-ons
 * Best regards

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