yauser

It seems to be pretty sure a specific wordpress issue related to the large data loaded with increasing numbers of pages when clicking the ‘All pages’ section. I am running 10K+ pages on each of my sites right now and I have optimised everything on my server massively but it needs additional memory that is given to wordpress in the settings.php. I put this line of code

define( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘3000M’ );

just before (!) the line

define( ‘WPINC’, ‘wp-includes’ );

Additionally I put these two lines

define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true);
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘3000M’);

into the wp-config.php file after the description of the base configuration of wordpress and before (!) the section of the database values.

The 3000M value for memory limit should be sufficient for quite a while. And assuming the server has some 32GB RAM in total it should leave enough resources for regular memory handling.

That way the list of all pages loads acceptable now. It still takes about 30 seconds to complete but at least you can act with the list afterwards like you are used to.

For just editing a bunch of pages I would highly recommend to install a premium plugin named ‘pronto’ and start editing just the first page which will work quite normaly. You are then able to choose the next page you want to edit within the plugin’s metabox in the column of the editor and jump directly to edit the next page instead of going back to the full list.

Hope that helps.

got it fixed. I gave it a try to deactivate some plugins I thought mostly related to the issue. But no pattern. On three websites it worked but different. The third one did not even contain one of the plugins anymore I deactivated on the other sites. Finally the workarounds solved the issue. The big question is if will remain with further large amount of published pages.

So if there is a white screen of death it is always a MUST to play around deactivating plugins. Even if it does not make any sense.

Thanks

Ruediger

Hi Stephanie,

page rules for the relevant blog URL should do a good job. And you must install the official CF WP plugin to ensure real IP adresses show up for each blog post’s analytics.

Hope that helps.

Ruediger

I have modified the config.php file to disable all revisions and cleaned all former records of these. This helped me out of the slow loading ‘all pages’ section for quite a while. Everything worked normal. But reaching 2k+ pages it resulted in a white screen of death suddenly out of the blue. I tested this issue on another website with almost the same configuration on the same dedicated server with exactly same result. Loading ‘all pages’ remains on white screen of death.

Adding pages is not affected at all. Runs fast and editing pages is not affected too. I have configured almost any memory and max limits stuff to an excessive amount that should be sufficient. No way. Loading ‘all pages’ is not possible anymore.

At this point Plesk Panel Health Monitor showed an increased CPU and memory usage for the Apache webserver suddenly increasing like a rocket. I’ll try to get a workaround to eliminate collecting hierarchy list etc. which are pretty nested on my sites. Maybe it helps.

The domains are running through Cloudflare CDN and I still have to configure the Varnish cache software. But on the frontend there is no problem at all. Pages get delivered properly.

@ GliffenDesigns

Seems like you are right. It is a hard issue to get around.

great, thanks for taking action. Please let me know about updates.

Great, I’ll wait like crazy for the ‘quick edit enabling’ to ease the pain. Thanks a lot.

btw: I have seen a post on WP dev stackexchange from a guy who has sites with a few hundred thousand sites! (what the hack is he building?):

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/83255/wordpress-admin-never-finishes-saving-page-on-site-with-large-page-count

Interesting, isn’t it. I have exactly the same problem at the admin’s edit page section managing 2K pages by now on a dedicated server with 12 core Intel i7 CPU and 32 GB RAM. And it gets worse by adding more pages every time.

If the ‘Advanced Page Manager’ plugin would include a solution to speedup editing large amount of pages it would supposingly sell like hotcake for a premium plugin. I definitely would be the first to buy it.

I can definitely agree to jarvisonline. I have exactly the same backend issue with add/edit of pages proceeding very slow even starting with 1K+ pages. My biggest site has 1800 pages right now and add/edit is almost a pain. Hosted on a 12 core dedicated server with 2x i7 intel CPU and 32GB RAM ! I have looked around for plugins but they all just give you a CMS like view, no edit or quick edit workaround. The best one is called ‘advanced page manager’. You can even check subpages in bulk but that’s it. After checking there is no edit possibility, just delete or change templates. I guess it really is a page’s issue only. Posts are not affected.

Any news?