On post create/edit page WP fetching all tags causing server slowdown

  • power506

    (@power506)


    5 years ago

    Every time I try to update or create a new post my whole site slows down. So I decided to inspect what’s happening and found a bunch of requests fetching all my tags page by page.

    On my site, there are almost 5000 tags which means that the site is fetching 50 pages of tags.

    This is URL:
    /tags?per_page=100&orderby=count&order=desc&_fields=id%2Cname&search=a&_locale=user&page
    tags?per_page=100&orderby=count&order=desc&_fields=id%2Cname&search=a&_locale=user&page=2
    …
    tags?per_page=100&orderby=count&order=desc&_fields=id%2Cname&search=a&_locale=user&page=50

    Requests are appearing with page load until it counts all pages. Every time I interact with tags field on the right sidebar the same process repeats.

    I tried to disable all plugins and the problem still persists.

    I’m on WordPress 5.3, the problem persisted on 5.2 version, but not sure for 5.1.

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  • sallyinstc

    (@sallyinstc)

    Hello, power506,

    That seems like an awfully large number of tags. I am curious about your strategy in having so many.

    Thread Starter power506

    (@power506)

    Hi Sally!

    I manage a news site about video games and movies. Every game or movie have their own tag with few exceptions in biggest developers or publishers. That’s about 4800 tags on 10k+ posts.

    While I can admit that maybe it’s not the best strategy, I think number of tags shouldnt create this kind of an issue.

    Meanwhile I’ve installed a fresh WP site, created 1k tags and didn’t notice any similar requests.

    sallyinstc

    (@sallyinstc)

    Okay, I’ll be interested to hear if you have the same problem again once you add in the remaining tags.

    Thread Starter power506

    (@power506)

    Is that a common problem in WordPress? It really isn’t recommended to have that many tags?
    EDIT: We sure didn’t have any problems few months ago were there was hundrerd or so less tags.

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by power506.

    The reason I asked about having so many tags is more about having a manageable taxonomy, and how to use that in your SEO strategy. I am not an expert in SEO, but I do know tightening your taxonomy strategy makes your SEO strategy more effective.

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