Short answer
The admin area is not cached the way the public site is, so it shows the true cost of your plugins. A slow dashboard usually means too many plugins running admin code, or a bloated database from years of revisions and expired transients.
Deactivating plugins one at a time is the reliable way to find the culprit. Cleaning up post revisions and transients often helps as much as removing a plugin.
Learn more
- Why is WordPress slow? How to find and fix the causeMeasure before you change anything, then work through the usual causes of a slow WordPress site: no caching, heavy plugins, big images and old PHP.
- Cleaning up and optimising the WordPress databaseWhat bloats a WordPress database — revisions, transients, spam, orphaned plugin tables — and how to clean it safely.
- Using Redis object caching with WordPressTurn on Redis for your account and connect WordPress with an object cache plugin, then confirm cache hits.
Step-by-step
- Speed up a slow WordPress siteAdvanced · 60 min · 9 steps
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