All of a sudden, select templates from my website no longer want to load.
Instead, I get an EE default ‘no search results’ page.
When I delete large chunks of code from those pages they load fine, telling me that it must be some kind of data overload problem.
It seems odd to me that it’s using the ‘no results’ page to indicate an error, but i was working on my search results layout when this happened—so constantly making searches from my simple search field was probably what pushed it over the edge.
I know that those were all very data-heavy pages and, in general, the website loads unbearably slow.
I’ve use ‘disable’ consistently with all exp:channel:entries tags, disabling everything except for custom fields—but my site (like most other sites) depends entirely on those custom fields. I also use a lot of Matrix and Playa fields. There are several types of relationships used and queried throughout and I’m also using a lot of field searching and random ordering, which I know ask a lot of the database.
Again, the site depends on all of this stuff. Is there some kind of magic wand that i can wave (or purchase???) that will lighten the load and allow me to do what I want to do with my data?
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Website performance is clearly not my thing!
Many thanks,
Lauren