Title: Two core admin functions: three problems! Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Two core admin functions: three problems! * [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/) * (@pubdirltd) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/) * Can anyone venture a possible cure before I go totally nutso? * There are two WP core functions which are slowing my admin panel significantly and throwing an error. * If I click on > Dashboard > Updates it takes about 33 seconds, and debug bar shows me this … * ``` Action or Filter Callbacks Calls Per Call Total load-update-core.php 4 1 14741.77ms 14741.77ms pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins 10 2 6206.15ms 12412.31ms Action or Filter Callbacks Calls Per Call Total load-update-core.php 4 1 14741.77ms 14741.77ms pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins 10 2 6206.15ms 12412.31ms Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token i https://petpal.directory/wp-admin/update-core.php line 1 ``` * When I click on > Plugins > Installed plugins, it takes about 34 seconds and debug bar shows me this… * ``` Action or Filter Callbacks Calls Per Call Total load-plugins.php 3 1 17345.83ms 17345.83ms pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins 10 2 7973.38ms 15946.75ms ``` * I am not a developer so I am not really sure how I can debug core any further, and I certainly don’t know what I can do about it, but the slowness of these two functions are driving me mad. * If I remember correctly, it only started since the prettification of the plugin install page and the work behind the scenes at the repository started, although I might be barking up entirely the wrong tree of course. * WP Version: 4.1.1 WP Multisite Enabled: No Web Server Info: Apache/2.4.12 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.1f PHP Version: 5.6.6 MySQL Version: 5.5.41 PHP Locale: decimal_point:. thousands_sep: int_curr_symbol: currency_symbol: mon_decimal_point: mon_thousands_sep: positive_sign: negative_sign: WP Memory Limit: 1,000 MB WP Debug Mode: Yes WP Language: Default WP Max Upload Size: 5 MB PHP Post Max Size: 5 MB Max Input Nesting Level: 64 PHP Time Limit: 300 PHP Max Input Vars: 1000 SUHOSIN Installed: No * Full site configuration here –> [https://gist.github.com/QloudPress/5c5aa2aba2fab9f22dba](https://gist.github.com/QloudPress/5c5aa2aba2fab9f22dba) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzak/) * (@mzak) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927730) * Personally I’m inclined to think that it’s one of the active plugins, rather than core. * I’d recommend deactivating all plugins, and then reloading the dashboard. If that helps, reactivate them one by one to try to isolate which one (or combination) is causing the problem. * Thread Starter [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/) * (@pubdirltd) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927788) * For whatever reason, the error has now disappeared, but as I added back all the plugins one by one, and looked at the debug trace, it didn’t show a significant jump in load time at any point. The delay in both those functions just got gradually slower and slower. * As I had already done this before, I am not surprised, but this time I kept a record of the slowest load times as I added the plugins. * It ended up here which appears to be about half as slow as it was previously… * ``` Final --------------------------------------------------- WordPress Update Slow Actions Action or Filter Callbacks Calls Per Call Total load-update-core.php 4 1 13159.11ms 13159.11ms pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins 9 2 5551.04ms 11102.08ms Installed Plugins Slow Actions Action or Filter Callbacks Calls Per Call Total load-plugins.php 3 1 15614.57ms 15614.57ms pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins 9 2 7101.83ms 14203.66m ``` * Still no idea how to speed it up though. * Any ideas? * Thread Starter [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/) * (@pubdirltd) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927825) * > Dashboard > Updates ~ 19 seconds > Plugins > Installed Plugins ~ 17 seconds * Has anyone an idea of how to resolve this? * [peteranne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteranne/) * (@peteranne) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927848) * We have the same issue, but the Plugin admin page is SO slow with 4.1.1 that we cannot reliably turn plugins on and off! Plugin admin is unworkable. We disabled wordpress SEO to see if that was the problem (as suggested by hoster) and then were unable to switch it back on via the dashboard! You clicked and nothing happened. In fact, when we examine html of pages, the Yoast plug-in code IS there, so it got switched back on but the super slow dashboard didn’t show this. We did have some issues with GRAND Flash gallery plug in not working correctly, but now it is OK. * Our site [http://www.peteranne.it](http://www.peteranne.it) * We failed to be able to update Yoast SEO plugin due to so-slow plugin admin page. thanks Peter * Thread Starter [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/) * (@pubdirltd) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927850) * It doesn’t sound like the same thing. You seem to have a much bigger problem than me. * [peteranne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteranne/) * (@peteranne) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927851) * today (we tried early in the morning when server load low) our site’s backend works fine. So despite their strenuous denials to the contrary we suspect our hoster was doing something. * Thread Starter [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/) * (@pubdirltd) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927853) * [@matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) ~ I eventually tracked down the source of my problem. * You were right. It was a plugin [ WP Job Manager – Company Profiles ] which was causing the problem. I eventually tracked it down via a rather circuitous root. It was actually blocking the Intense plugins FAQ custom post types. And when I eventually found it to be the culprit, all of a sudden the other problems were gone too. * Sometimes I really do wish I was a little less visual and a little more logically minded. * Many thanks, * Terence. * [peteranne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteranne/) * (@peteranne) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927857) * [@terence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terence/) [@matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) we too partially solved our problem by disabling plugins one at a time. I had completely forgotten we had these plugins which work with the backend My Link Order (“last Updated: 2 years ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5.2” Google Maps Embed(“This plugin is NO LONGER actively maintained Last Updated: 1 year ago Compatible up to: 3.7.1) We leave disabled these plugins and the site goes much better cheers Peter  Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Two core admin functions: three problems!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [peteranne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteranne/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-core-admin-functions-two-problems/#post-5927857) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics