I saw @johnjamesjacoby mention twice how larger BBpress sites should avoid hidden/private forums to avoid a JOIN that checks if each topic/reply is from a hidden forum.

I had two private forums, and my site was so slow that I could not delete them from wp-admin. So I used phpMyAdmin to delete both forms as well as all the topics beneath them.

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Thanks!

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 8 months ago]

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Be ready for bbPress v2.6 😉 We have a few performance improvements coming with this release.

The downside of our planned improvements means there is a pretty high chance we will break sites thus we have lots of testing and lots of extra code to write to make sure we don’t break anything.