Hey iamdistinct,
Sorry, didn’t see this. I believe you bought the premium redirect extension, so you can get a better level of support through email. Just head over to my contact form and send me an email through that, then we can email back and forth..
To answer the question though – for people not using the redirect extension, there is the bulk delete option, but that doesn’t do the redirects, so it won’t help you.
I chose the limit of 20 posts per page to keep it below the timeouts, but obviously it’s too many in your case. So the options are:
- I could tweak the plugin for you so that it shows less (maybe 10) and see whether that avoids the timeout
- If you have access to edit php.ini and you know how to do this, you could set max_execution_time to something higher (such as 300)
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If you don’t have access, I could add a line to the plugin that tries to increase the timeout, but if you are on a shared server then your host will almost certainly prevent that from working
- Other than that, I could rewrite the plugin to try to do delete the duplicates in a series of smaller transactions rather than a bigger one – but this would take quite some time for me to do…
Anyway, let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Stephen
