Woodmart Core dramatically increases CPU usage

Hello,

We are using the Woodmart theme on a WooCommerce store and we have recently noticed a significant increase in server CPU usage.

**Environment details:**

* WordPress + WooCommerce
* Woodmart theme (latest version)
* Cloudflare (Free plan)
* LiteSpeed server
* ~2,000 products
* Many filters and attributes in use

Issue description:
For the last few days CPU usage on the server has been constantly high. After troubleshooting, we identified that the Woodmart Core plugin dramatically increases CPU usage, especially when product filters and AJAX features are active.

As soon as we disable Woodmart Core, CPU usage immediately drops to normal levels.

However, disabling Woodmart Core causes multiple frontend issues, for example:

* Product filters disappear
* Mobile burger menu becomes static and shifted
* Wishlist stops showing added items
* Instagram feed on the homepage disappears

We also noticed that Cloudflare might be affecting AJAX-based features, but even without Cloudflare caching, the CPU spikes persist when Woodmart Core is active.

Request:
Could you please advise on how to optimize performance and reduce CPU usage while still keeping the Woodmart Core functionality active?
If there are recommended settings for filters / AJAX / Cloudflare / caching for large catalogs, please let us know.

Thank you in advance.

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Hello,

Thank you so much for contacting our support center.

To better assist you, could you kindly test the functionality with default WordPress themes such as TwentyTwenty or WooCommerce Storefront? Note that you will need to add the same set of filter widgets to test this properly if you think that it is somehow related to the filters functionality.
This will help us determine whether the issue stems from our theme or elsewhere.

Regards

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