When wordpress website overuses CPU resources. Print

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Excessive CPU resources usage is usually caused by inefficient third party themes and plugins or outdated code or misconfigurations (PHP/ configuration settings). If your site is on shared server, this is detrimental on other hosting accounts and so, the wordpress website overusing cpu resources is blocked. We are giving suggestions which are intended to help reduce the amount of resources consumed by your websites, they are not guranteed to resolve resource usage issues.  The vast majority of issues that cause wordpress to consume too many resources are the result of coding that we are not able to support.  But steps you can take to avoid cpu resource overusage issues are following, but before that you should take manual back up of your website:
 
(i) Generating a flat HTML page for popular content
(ii) Enabling caching through wp supercache, w3 total cache and Install a database optimisation plugin.
(iii) Disabling high CPU usage features such as searches or Ajax refreshes
(iv) Update wordpress to latest version
(v) Minimize the number of wordpress crons. 
(vi) Check your plugins - Identify the plugins that hurt your website so you can uninstall the Plugins.  Any plugins that are not healthy to your wordpress should be deleted. Please check any time you add any additional plugin, these can increase your resource usage. It is recommended no more than 3-5 active plugins in addition to cache plugins.
(vii) Limit webcrawlers and bots by creating a robots.txt file to block robots and search engines from crawling
(viii) Check your theme if it is causing such issues. Set your theme to wordpress default theme to check if you existing theme has caused issues related to overusage of resources.
(ix) Using external scripts that rely on remote pages such as facebook links, Twitter feeds, and external videos can impact the performance of your site.  You will want to limit these external tools as much as possible so your site is not held back by scripts you cannot control. 
 
Remove the following resource intensive plugins -
Google sitemap
WP Post views
WpRobot 3
SEO Plugins
Backup Plugins
Some Image galleries and media players plugins
 
You can also use pingdom and GTmetrix to identify the scripts that cause most impact on your site.

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