How Big is Too Big for Delete Duplicate Posts?

  • Resolved wpbroken2much

    (@wpbroken2much)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    I have a site with just over 139,000 posts which seems unable to run your plugin now. I tried running it for the first time in months only to see the little loading icon run for awhile before disappearing and no duplicates being displayed. There are no errors in the javascript console in my browser and I didn’t notice anything in the PHP error log but that site does not have debugging enabled.

    I plan to split this site up into some smaller sites for performance reasons anyway, so I’m hoping maybe your guidance might help me decide how big is too big for the new ones.

    In my experience most plugins only work so long until a site becomes so big that the plugin either become really slow or stop working entirely.

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  • Plugin Author Lars Koudal

    (@lkoudal)

    Hello @wpbroken2much

    Looking for duplicates in a huge pool of posts of 139K+ can be time consuming. The best suggestion I can give is to lower the number of posts deleted per batch. You can change that in the settings.

    There are many things that can influence your website performance. Hosting, memory, server load, other plugins manipulating queries and so on. There is no known limit in terms of number of posts to prevent timeouts or other issues on your server.

    Thread Starter wpbroken2much

    (@wpbroken2much)

    Why does it take so long to select all just by clicking the checkbox after the scan completes. The first scan results were un-selectable then I changed the post count from 1,000 to 500 but I often have to refresh the page and try clicking the box again. Sometimes it just freezes, selects nothing, and won’t let me click the box again.

    Plugin Author Lars Koudal

    (@lkoudal)

    Please consider change the setting to 50 and then turn on automatic deleting. It might take a little bit longer, but this way the process takes less strain on your website and you do not have to sit and babysit the process.

    The interface needs to be improved, agreed – currently all duplicates are listed in a long list, whereas a different approach with paginated results and AJAXified responses would make it much faster and user friendly.

    Hopefully I will have the time to rebuild the interface, but for now please try the “delete just a few posts at a time, automatically” approach.

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