burnthelies

Hi guys, i am having the exact same issue. Recently migrated to a Linux VPS environment from a shared environment and have found that with this plugin enabled, every time a post is added it takes an extra long time to complete.

For example, with plugin disabled, takes around 1 or 2 seconds for post to completely publish and page reload.

With plugin enabled, takes anywhere between 10 and 60 seconds to post, and if i try and add multiple posts at the same time (that is a few seconds apart, so the first article is trying to publish when i hit publish on subsequent articles) every post will come up with a 500 Internal Server Error even though generally the posts actually DO publish

Don’t have any issues with the plugin disabled and have tested this thoroughly by adding 10 or so articles at once.

Any suggestions? I love this plugin and want to use it but it just causes too many issues now ??

Managed to track down the issue, so thank you very much for your words of wisdom, disabled the handful of plugins we have running on the site and re-activated them one at a time.

Eventually worked out that it is Simple Tags plugin that was causing the issue – and seeing as we dont really use it very often it is easier just to get rid of it.

Thanks again, warm regards,
Ewan

The current working page can be viewed at

https://www.shadowlyrics.com/bands

This is the modified page that i have an extra category excluded on at the moment to make it work.

https://www.shadowlyrics.com/bands/test

This is the standard page we have been using for the past 6 months until now, as you can see it doesnt display anything after the point where wp_list_categories executes

Thanks for the suggestion, have since tried it using the mentioned plugin and was unable to get things to work properly – ironically it actually makes the error WORSE.

Have done a bit more testing and the page in question (if it were working correctly) should display 27 primary categories with any number of sub-categories under each, and it seems once the categories being displayed drops below approximately 300 the page starts working again.

Also the text i have put on the page to advise visitors of an issue with the list changes colour from black (when the page isnt working – this is WRONG) to the appropriate red when it is working (which is the correct text colour on the site).

Although im guessing this is probably more as a result of the embedded code on the page not executing correctly as if i look at the source code on the faulty page it fails to display ANY code once it has reached the point of executing the wp_list_categories function.

So i can only assume it is somehow linked to a limit in that function? Anybody have any other insight? Or a solution?

As always, thanks in advance.