Menu Timeout

Hi,

We are having the same problem:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ***/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 82

Our menu system has about 50 items in it, and upon speaking with our hosting company they raised the execution time to 60 seconds and it solved the problem.

However, our hosting company pointed out that if something takes that long to execute on a new server with a low load, then there is a deeper problem.

What is the best way of letting the WordPress guys knows about this?

Thanks

Hi Nick,

You need to speak to your hosting company and ask them increase the time limit for executing a php page.

There is a php function which you can place in the wp-config.php called set_time_limit, but I was told by my hosting company that in my case, this would not do anything.

Is anything happening about this? I’m having the same problem, and I’m potentially looking at a menu with hundreds of items. With fewer than 50 I’m hitting the timeout at 60 seconds, and my hosting company tells me that I need a VPS account in order for it to be raised any farther.

They also said, looking at the error message, that it seemed to be a bug, but they couldn’t do anything about it.

Since WordPress wants the software to act as CMS software as well as blog software, the devs must realise that some of us need the ability to use large menus.

I haven’t upgraded to 3.1 yet – does anyone know if that would fix the bug? If not, is there anything else that can be done? We’re about to abandon the custom menu on the website, but that’ll mean losing a couple of features that we’re finding useful. Not much choice, though, since we’ve hit the timeout limit and have barely got started on the menu.