Title: Plugin Caused 524 Error
Last modified: April 11, 2019

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# Plugin Caused 524 Error

 *  [dreamingfifi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamingfifi/)
 * (@dreamingfifi)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-caused-524-error-2/)
 * Hey guys!
 * I really love this plugin, I really do!!
 * Only problem is that it caused a massive surge in IO and CPU load, basically 
   making the website so frantically busy that no humans could access it. I wasn’t
   able to fix it until I deleted the plugin directly off the server.
 * It wasn’t always like this though. For years, it worked beautifully. But at 4:
   56 AM 4 days ago, it went haywire. I wasn’t awake or working on the website, 
   and none of my helpers were either.
 * Something automated happened at that point in time that made your plugin break
   my website.
 * It wasn’t the only plugin to break either. The [Classic Editor](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/classic-editor/)
   also broke and caused the same ruckus. The two of them together really insured
   that no humans could access the website.
 * So, I think that something updated about WordPress itself that broke everything.
 * You guys likely know a hell of a lot more than I do about what could have happened
   to cause this. I deleted the plugin so my website is working again, but I don’t
   want to add it back until you guys have solved this mystery.
 * Thanks,
 * Fiona

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 *  Plugin Author [webvitalii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webvitaly/)
 * (@webvitaly)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-caused-524-error-2/#post-11419520)
 * Hi Fiona,
 * Hm, that is weird, never seen this problem before.
    Page-List plugin does not
   suppose to cause a heavy load and does not do anything on the background. It 
   uses the default WordPress functions to output list of pages like wp_list_pages()
   for example.
 * I would like to ask some questions. Maybe that will give some hints what might
   cause issues.
    - Can you tell which shortcodes you used?
    - And also can you tell approximately how many pages are there on your website?
    - And which version of WordPress are you using?
    - Which plugins are you using?
    - Which theme are you using?

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [webvitalii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webvitaly/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-caused-524-error-2/#post-11419520)
 * Status: not resolved