Title: Help! WordPress Expert Needed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help! WordPress Expert Needed

 *  [evilbeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilbeet/)
 * (@evilbeet)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/)
 * Hi all!
 * I’m using WordPress to run my website, evilbeetgossip.com. Lately, we’re seeing
   very high traffic, and my host says the server is being overloaded with SQL requests.
   I’ve disabled almost all plugins, and it’s still running slow or not at all.
 * The host suggested I post on here to find a WordPress expert to look through 
   the code and see if any of it could be streamlined. He said upgrading the server
   wouldn’t help at this point. I don’t really understand the problem or how to 
   fix it, so any help/explanation would be much appreciated.
 * So … I’m hiring!
 * If you think you can help out, please post here with your contact info or email
   me directly at [evilbeet@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/evilbeet@gmail.com?output_format=md)
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christhomson/)
 * (@christhomson)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-714841)
 * I can’t personally help you, but I will tell you that it’s a good idea to post
   the job on the [WordPress Job board](http://jobs.wordpress.net/). Lots of WP 
   experts look around there! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [evilbeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilbeet/)
 * (@evilbeet)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-714994)
 * I posted on the WP job board per the suggestion, but they haven’t even displayed
   my job posting yet, and it’s been a couple days.
 * Anyone out there interested?
 * Thanks!
 *  Moderator [Dion Hulse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dd32/)
 * (@dd32)
 * Meta Developer
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-714995)
 * I’d instll WP Super Cache [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)
 * It should cache your pages and reduce the SQL load significantly.
 *  Thread Starter [evilbeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilbeet/)
 * (@evilbeet)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-714998)
 * It’s already installed. 🙁 It doesn’t seem to be helping.
 * Although, WP Super Cache does give me this warning:
 * >  It appears that mod_rewrite is not installed. Sometimes this check isn’t 100%
   > reliable, especially if you are not using Apache. Please verify that the mod_rewrite
   > module is loaded. It is required for serving Super Cache static files. You 
   > will still be able to use WP-Cache.
 * I asked my host and they say mod_rewrite is, in fact, installed.
 * Hmmmmm ….
 * Any other tips on reducing SQL load?
 *  Moderator [Dion Hulse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dd32/)
 * (@dd32)
 * Meta Developer
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-714999)
 * > Any other tips on reducing SQL load?
 * Other than disabling functions which your not using, Increasing the cache timeout,
   and potentially enabling a Persistant Object Cache, theres very little you can
   do aside from move to a better server.
 * WordPress can handle a high load if given the resources it needs.. But i’m no
   good at optimization 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [evilbeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilbeet/)
 * (@evilbeet)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-715000)
 * Okay …
 * I hard-coded a bunch of stuff in my header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php. I
   didn’t realize how often WP is querying the database for info that can pretty
   much be hard-coded. I guess the point is to have a really flexible solution, 
   which works great for most bloggers, but it trades off on efficiency, which gets
   to be a real problem when you’re seeing over 500K page views daily.
 * I also disabled pretty much all the plugins except for WP Super Cache, Pagebar
   and WP-phpMyAdmin.
 * Hopefully this will make some difference tomorrow during the peak times.
 * Also: I have quite a few pages where the comment count is well over 2000. They’re
   popular pages, and I think they’re slowing down the server considerably. I hate
   to do this to readers, but I may just have to bite the bullet and delete all 
   those comments. Any other thoughts on the comment issue?
 * Thanks again to everyone for their help!

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-expert-needed/#post-715000)
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