I am working on quite a complicated form; it has form fields, post fields and custom post fields.
I noticed my server became very slow. Since I had a customer complaining about responsiveness in combination with a complicated form too, I deactivated GF, which improved speed drastically:
GF active - admin login: 17.25 sec Yslow
GF not active: 2.83 sec. in Yslow
Any ideas what could be wrong?
This is with 1.3.12 as wel as with 1.3.12.2, on WP 3.0
Thanks in advance.
We haven't had any reports of performance issues such as this with other users. Depending on your host it could be server resource issues. The type of form fields your form(s) have does not add to the complexity of the execution. The forms display the same no matter what fields, only the processing after they are submitted is different. It could be a memory issue on your server, a lot of shared hosts do not provide a lot of memory by default.
The Backup Buddy plugin and Gravity Forms both connect to 3rd party servers to check for updates (ex. ours for Gravity Forms and PluginBuddy servers for BackupBuddy). When you load the plugin page it forces an update check. Your server could be slow to do this check to both servers.
Gravity Forms uses a built in WordPress hook to check for updates. We didn't write our own upgrade/update routine. It's all native WordPress core functionality. So we have no way of changing it. There shouldn't be that big of a delay, if there is then something else is going on. Either with your WordPress install or your web server not being able to communicate properly with our server.
