Too many Pages?

afx237vi
(@afx237vi)

18 years, 6 months ago

I have a lot of Pages, which I use to manage a seperate section away from my main blog, but I’m wondering whether there is a limit on the amount of Pages possible.

My main problem is that in the Pages Management section of the admin panel, all the Pages appear in one huge list, meaning that it takes *ages* to load. Is there any way of making it like the Posts Management section, where only 15 posts show up and you can navigate to find older ones?

Half the time, the Pages Management section only loads three-quartes of the way and I get this error message at the top:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/cageofmo/public_html/cycloblog/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 144

Also, is it possible that having too many Pages could slow down my main blog? It may be a different issue, but I feel that my blog is a fraction more sluggish lately, although I may be imagining it.

Anyone have any tips?

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jordhie
(@jordhie)

18 years, 6 months ago

Somehow I doubt the number of pages is slowing down your blog… since that would, in theory, make ‘regular’ websites with lots of pages sluggish too, wouldn’t it? I don’t know. Maybe you could write to a WP staffer and ask them to include page archiving in the next release of WordPress.

Thread Starter afx237vi
(@afx237vi)

18 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for your reply. I written a post in the Feature Request forum asking for improved Page Management in the next release.

But in the meantime, is there any way of getting rid of that error message and ensuring that all of my Pages load, no matter how long it takes? I’ve noticed that the line number changes every time I hit refresh, if that helps.

Thread Starter afx237vi
(@afx237vi)

18 years, 6 months ago

Anyone? I can’t believe no-one else has experienced this problem…

amrita_kapur
(@amrita_kapur)

18 years, 6 months ago

which browser are u using try firefox or opera and see if you have the same problem.

Thread Starter afx237vi
(@afx237vi)

18 years, 6 months ago

I’ve tried it in FF and IE, and it’s the same thing each time.

Thread Starter afx237vi
(@afx237vi)

18 years, 6 months ago

Okay, I downloaded Opera to see if that would work, and I got the same thing. But I did find out that the page is over 200k! That’s how many Pages I have, and why I’m having so much grief…

kineda
(@kineda)

18 years, 6 months ago

I’m having the same problem as well in both IE and FF. The page management screen won’t fully load and I’ll get the 30 second error because of the great number of pages that I have.

bakert
(@bakert)

18 years, 5 months ago

This is _definitely_ not browser related. The problem is that the page is taking too long to execute on the server. You can increase the page timeout value in PHP although I’m not sure of the exact syntax or where in WordPress it would go. I’ll post more when I’ve sorted it out. I’m having the same problem (with approx 400 pages).

bakert
(@bakert)

18 years, 5 months ago

I added:

set_time_limit(1000);

directly under the

<?php

at the top of wp-include/functions.php (which was the page mentioned in the timeout error message – yours may be different) and the page will now load fully.

However, it takes an absolute age (several minutes).

I think I must have messed something up inserting my pages direct into the database. Is an entry made anywhere else when a page is entered apart from the wp_posts table?

Thanks, Tom.

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 5 months ago

As far as I know there is also an entry for every Page and post in the post2cat table. I am not sure but lacking that might be the cause of your problems…

bakert
(@bakert)

18 years, 5 months ago

Rather foolishly I seem to be discussing this in two places now.

I’m going to put all future comments on the thread I started at:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49997

Thanks, T

bakert
(@bakert)

18 years, 5 months ago

Breaking my own rule as soon as I made it —

I now have an entry in post2cat but it’s not made any difference. Looking at the SQL involved I think my solution at:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49997

is the only thing for it until I have a faster server.

Thanks for your help, T