Title: WP E Commerce Plugin Slow Load Non Functioning. Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # WP E Commerce Plugin Slow Load Non Functioning. * Resolved [barrygoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrygoods/) * (@barrygoods) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/) * I recently was adding a new product to my cart and I had created a new variation. Once I did that, all hell broke loose. * Website started taking 40 seconds just to load or not even load at all. * I went forward and removed everything that i inputed and also a few other items that were not being used and still there was a very big lag load issue. I had thought it was Dreamhost so i went and spoke with them and they said that my site was causing it. * I went and installed WP Tuner and it looks like my e commerce plugin seems to be taking 35-40 seconds to load. And when i dove a little deeper, it seems as though my variations is the culprit. I have tried deleting and re issuing of the variations and nothing changed. * I am no expert. I am actually just a green horn when it comes to these things. * Anyone have any experience in dealing with this. Right now my only fix is to have 5-10 items which cause my site to load for 5-10 seconds. * Thanks, * Barry * Also. Dream Host Guy said that i possibly would need to clear my theme cache and do a flush. but then again, I don’t know how. I tried to search for that button but to of no avail. Any help will be appreciated. * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Plugin Author [Justin Sainton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinsainton/) * (@justinsainton) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/#post-3988974) * How many variations (groups, and variations per group) are you creating per product? * Thread Starter [barrygoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrygoods/) * (@barrygoods) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/#post-3989003) * Not many about 4 categories. Honestly everything was working fine until one day I was adding in a new product with new variations and for some reason my website lagged out and after that, I started having the problems. Now everything takes 20 seconds to load. It takes each item a second to load. * Plugin Author [Justin Sainton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinsainton/) * (@justinsainton) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/#post-3989047) * Interesting. I’d be happy to take a look if you want to email me admin credentials at justinsainton at gmail dot com. This generally occurs when you are on a shared host with low memory limits and create many products that have many variations. For better or worse (mostly worse, in hindsight), a custom post is created for each variation combination. For example, if you have 3 variation groups with 10 options each, that’s 1,000 post entries in the database, per post. Pretty insane. * Plugin Author [Justin Sainton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinsainton/) * (@justinsainton) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/#post-3989050) * Hi Barry, * Thanks for shooting me an email. You’re running WordPress 2.9 and WPeC 3.7.5.3. You need to update your software. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘WP E Commerce Plugin Slow Load Non Functioning.’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-e-commerce_ebebeb.svg) * [WP eCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-e-commerce/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-e-commerce/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-e-commerce/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-e-commerce/reviews/) ## Tags * [cart](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cart/) * [commerce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/commerce/) * [lag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lag/) * [load](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/load/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Justin Sainton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinsainton/) * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-e-commerce-plugin-slow-load-non-functioning/#post-3989050) * Status: resolved