# Slow WordPress Dashboard Navigation **URL:** \ **Category:** Application Support\ **Created:** [June 30, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/slow-wordpress-dashboard-navigation/1586 "2022-06-30T15:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tilt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@tilt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/tilt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/slow-wordpress-dashboard-navigation/1586/1 "2022-06-30T15:58:15Z")
I usually use LocalWP app and wanted to try DevKinsta to compare. After installing Docker and DevKinsta with all default settings, I created my first WordPress site. My first observation is the slowness of the system compared to LocalWP. I researched why and ended up seeing the same slowness with LocalWP if I replace MySql with MariaDB. So I wanted to replace MariaDB with MySQL in DevKinsta but it doesn’t offer it to me, I can only use MariaDB. It’s a shame it’s so slow, I’ll try again when DevKinsta allows using MySQL. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/kevin/32/808_2.png) [@Kevin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Kevin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/slow-wordpress-dashboard-navigation/1586/2 "2022-06-30T17:41:56Z")
Hi @tilt, thank you for sharing this. I believe we use Mariadb to match what Kinsta sites use but I will mention your experience to our developers. ---
**Author:** ![tilt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@tilt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/tilt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/slow-wordpress-dashboard-navigation/1586/3 "2022-07-04T15:53:32Z")
Hi, for your information, if you use php 8, it’s slow, if you use mariaDB 10, it’s slow. The best config is PHP 7 + MySQL 8 + nginx/apache