Slow Post Update

Hello @imblue87

I am sorry you’re experiencing slow post update. Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

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Hi

I am using JNEWS theme, I use Yoast with the same theme in several sites without problems.

Does Reset Indexables tables & Migrations help in anyway? What are the risks of doing this?

I have also disabled all the plugins on the website.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Amber Patterson.

Hello Amber,

We have seen unexpected issues where the previously optimized data is invalid or incomplete. We usually recommend a reset of the optimization to ensure we’ve removed any invalid data. You could reset indexables tables & migrations. There are no risks. Your hard work will not be lost as the default WordPress tables also contain the SEO data. This process will only reset the custom Yoast tables with the combined data pulled from those default tables.

Are you familiar with the issues below? My slow articles updates occur only in articles that have lots of images inside them.

https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/16713

https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/20215

Thanks for sharing the GitHub issue; it relates to saving a post with a lot of links and images. Since you metioned yours have lots of images inside them, can you temporarily remove the images to see if there’s a difference then?

Yes. When I remove the images from the article, the update is a lot faster, like 3-5 seconds.

Is this issue still open for further improvement on Github?

Thank you

Thank you for confirming it. Unfortunately, both issues are open.

Due to a large number of issues, we have to focus on issues that either are breaking the plugin or affect many users. We do agree that this is something that should be addressed and therefore it is on our radar: we have been able to confirm the bug and therefore have the intention of fixing this. Unfortunately, due to capacity, we cannot give you an estimate on when this issue will be addressed.

We always encourage our users to contribute to our plugin, not just by submitting issues but also by submitting patches. If you (or someone else) decide(s) to write a patch for this issue, we’ll gladly include it after some code review.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Suwash. Reason: Edited to add some piece of info

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Maybellyne.

Hello,

I have the same issue on a large website, multiple queries like the one bellow run after saving the post:

SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_wp_attached_file' AND meta_value = (...)

It makes the database crawl to a stop and it takes forever to save the page (up to 30 seconds!). If I disable Yoast plugin the page is saved in less than 3 seconds.

I have the exact same problem on my site. Couldn’t the authors of the Yoast plugin at least release some hotfix? It’s a really annoying bug ??