ericr23

Thank you both. It’s not overwhelming traffic, so, rate limiting probably isn’t necessary, but it’s a new unusual pattern. I couldn’t find anything about the Automattic Feed Fetcher on the WordPress.com site, but thanks for the reminder.

(Ní ach foghlaimeoir mé, ach is breá liom a bheith úsáid an teanga álainn seo!)

Yes, I’m pretty sure it was the attack, which was targeting just one post on one WP instance. No problems after stopping it.

Turns out there was a massive attack over the past couple of days repeatedly requesting the same page. Is dócha nach bheidh an fadhb ann ó anois. GRMA

Posting today: First one, time out error after publishing. Then I restarted the database server, and the second one did not time out. A third post all OK as well. So perhaps a database caching issue? Conflicting with Super Cache?

I don’t know if the following command is new, but it is the only one that runs only once an hour, every hour, around 5 minutes, and it’s the last line in the crontab. Or perhaps some other system update has affected it.

4 * * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/process_team_queue > /dev/null 2>&1

It would seem to be relevant that my other 2 WP (with Super Cache) installations are not affected. They are much much smaller in terms of number of posts.

Lots to examine – thank you for the suggestions. I just noticed that it happens regularly only once an hour (at 5 minutes past, to be exact). I wonder if a server update changed a crontab command.

In a custom plugin I have for various modifications, I added category-all.tabs-panel {height:250px;} to the following, which took care of it:

</php function ww_admin_css() { ?>
<style type='text/css'>#update-nag,.update-nag {display:none;} ul.categorychecklist li {line-height:120%;} .wp-editor-area {line-height:120%;} #category-all.tabs-panel {height:250px;}</style>
<?php }
add_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'ww_admin_css', 100, 0 );

Same. 166 categories. https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/61662

• This reply was modified 4 months ago by ericr23.

Solution! I thought if I edit one of the posts, or even just open it and click Update, it would be counted. The result was even better: The whole count was updated, and the category now appears in the dropdown menu!

I converted a tag to category and have the same issue. Since WP now thinks there are 0 posts in that category, even though clicking in the admin page on the 0 lists all of the posts, the category doesn’t appear with the other categories in the dropdown menu.

That appears to have taken care of it.

I have wrapped the iffeed-scotland.php file in ob_start() and ob_flush(). We’ll see if that helps.

Yes, it’s the same provided on the settings page (debug tab).

Thanks. No applicable errors. “httpd -M” shows that auth_basic_module is loaded.