If you find your Wordpress admin is running real slow and you use the aLinks plugin, chances are it’s this that’s the problem. In fact the same might apply to other plugins, but you can check by de-activating the plugin(s) and see what the effect is. Anyway, here’s the solution…
aLinks checks the authors website at Headzoo for updates every time you call a page in wp-admin. If the Headzoo site is down or slow, this causes a knock-on effect. The simple and easy way to solve this is to do a PHP edit on the file:
/wp-content/plugins/aLinks/classes/aLinksNotices.php.
Around line 41 (depending on your version of aLinks) is a function called “aLinksNotices()”. Simply comment out the lines within the function, ensuring you leave the function name line and the trailing } intact. You should end up with something like this:
function aLinksNotices($version) {
//$this->client = new IXR_Client(’http://www.headzoo.com/xmlrpc.php’);
//$this->version = $version;
//if ($this->checkVersion()) {
// $this->newVersionAvail();
//}
That should solve your problem, although clearly it will no longer be able to notify you of new versions of aLinks.