Oy, this is become quite a little pain. The k2 theme rocks and I use it on my own blog where it works just fine. However, on iocean it is really really slooooooww. I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking into why this is and have tried tweaking for performance at every level: mysql optimizations, turning off plug-ins, wp-cache, etc.

I’m still not entirely sure what’s causing the sluggish performance. In the meantime, I’m reverting back (somewhat) to the previous theme, which loads a bit faster. I’m wondering whether we should install the APC (alternative php cache) extension to enable compiled php caching in apache. This could help somewhat?

I’ll wait until Mason returns in a couple weeks to figure some of this stuff out. For now, this site, although functional, will remain in a state of limbo.

Thanks for the patience.

-Shaun