The update I published on June 26th only added a small bit of functionality to the plugin admin, so that would not slow down the page load. Before that, the last update was on May 20th.
Did you install other plugins on your site? Perhaps there is just more load since you seem to be on a shared server?
No other plug-ins recently. That could be w.r.t. the shared server, but I notice it more on pages that have links in comparison with those that do not. I have, however, started copying entire link contents into the link forms. Is it possible that could slow things down?
Are we talking about paragraphs of content here? Are you using any type of page caching plugin to try to help with this on your site?
I store large paragraphs, yes, but I am not rendering the content on the page. I am using JetPack for image caching, but that’s all.
The problem may have to do with splitting the libraries up (I now have two link libraries, settings=”1″ and settings=”2″).
Using different library configurations on different pages should not have any impact on performance. It just queries data with different parameters.
Are you displaying RSS information for each of these links?
Not that I know of. I checked the library configuration, and all of RSS check boxes are blank. I also looked at a few links and no RSS information is present.