Hello,
I’m experiencing a serious performance issue with the Newspaper theme on my website.
The site is running extremely slowly, both in the frontend and the WordPress admin area. While the site is open, the server CPU usage constantly stays between 60–90%, which causes significant delays when loading pages or editing content.
This happens even with minimal activity on the site, so it appears that something within the theme may be consuming excessive resources.
Could you please help me identify:
if there are any known performance issues related to the theme,
which theme features or modules might be responsible for the high CPU usage,
and what optimizations or settings you recommend to reduce the load?
If needed, I can also provide access to a staging environment for debugging.
Thank you for your support.
Hi,
Check if you are using ajax pagination, mega menu, and many blocks (the theme is making a query for each block in parts, and if you are using mega menu, each element as mega menu makes queries, also ajax pagination makes queries to the database). Also, make sure that you use lazyload for images.
Other type of settings that can reduce the numbers of queries: use a good cache plugin WP Rocket, use object cache (redis), and use flex block cache – https://forum.tagdiv.com/use-flex-blocks-cache-option/ (with will reduce the number of request instead of a request for each page load for each flex block, this request will be only after 5-10 minutes for that flex block, it depends on the time set)
In addition, it’s a good idea to identify what’s consuming your server resources. Tools like Query Monitor – https://www.superspeedyplugins.com/kb/performance-optimization/site-owner-tips/how-to-use-query-monitor-to-analyse-wordpress-performance-problems/ and Code Profiler can help you pinpoint high CPU or resource usage caused by plugins, themes, or database queries.
Thank you!
