Critical Issue in Site Health-Autoloaded Options

  • I am receiving this message in my site health: Autoloaded options are configuration settings for plugins and themes that are automatically loaded with every page load in WordPress. Having too many autoloaded options can slow down your site. Your site has 559 autoloaded options (size: 3 MB) in the options table, which could cause your site to be slow. You can review the options being autoloaded in your database and remove any options that are no longer needed by your site. I spoke with someone at Bluehost and they said it is only there because of wordpress update??

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  • The message concerns the database table options, which is used by WordPress. Individual entries in the table have a very high value in themselves and are automatically loaded each time the page is called up. The background is described here in a very technical form: https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2024/06/18/options-api-disabling-autoload-for-large-options/

    You have 3 options:
    a) You check which component of your project leaves such large data records in the options table. This could be difficult to find. A look at the data records in SQL would be most suitable, if you are able to do so.
    b) You can use a PHP hook to increase the threshold value for the warning. This would stop it from being displayed. Details are described in the link above.
    c) You ignore the warning. It is primarily intended to alert you to a possible error.

    Hello and thank you for reaching out! Autoloaded Options normally come from your theme and plugins. If you have a large number of plugins you may want to make an effort to reduce those. If you don’t have a lot of plugins, these autoloaded options are managed in your database, specifically the wp_options table. I always recommend working with a developer if you are not familiar with database work as it can become fairly technical with a lot of potential pain points that can affect your site’s functionality.  

    WordPress has an article on this along with some other optimization recommendations in their developer article titled “Optimization”. You may need to look through the “WordPress Developer Resources” section of their website to find more helpful information as well.  

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