Title: backup and wp_options
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# backup and wp_options

 *  [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/)
 * backed up data (having login problems for users) and noticed that 80%!!! of the
   data is this:
    INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (67, 0, ‘rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4’
 * INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (69, 0, ‘rss_867bd5c64f85878d03a060509cd2f92c’,‘
   Y’, 1, ‘O:9:”magpierss”:19:{s:6:”parser”;i:0;s:12:”current_item”;a:0:{}
 * eg. I believe it’s getting the complete rss feed from each of the wordpress news
   links and installing it as part of the database!
 * SURELY THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND GOOD?
 * please advise!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360487)
 * It does indeed get stored in the database.
 *  Thread Starter [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360492)
 * but why?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360494)
 * You’d rather those feeds were stored … where?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360496)
 * In comparison to the size of the database the space taken is very small. The 
   other option is to remove the dash.
 *  Thread Starter [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360497)
 * humour, though good in itself, is not, at this point, helpful. perhaps towards
   the conclusion?
 * Meanwhile:
 * Can one turn them off?
 * Forgive me for being naive, but I thought the whole point of ‘feeds’ was to ‘
   feed’ neccessary content (eg.title / link / 1st line) not unneccessary (eg. the
   whole article/thread/site/post/whatever) into a database…
 *  Thread Starter [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360498)
 * sorry was busy gently rebuking.
 * ‘remove the dash’ Could you be a little more precise, bearing in mind I’m not
   only ‘naive’ I’m a, a, a designer, there I said it.
 *  Thread Starter [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360503)
 * ps. 107615 characters…is that very small?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360513)
 * My post was not humor. At a guess, I theorize they are stored in the db to prevent
   those servers offering the feeds from being hammered every time someone goes 
   to their dashboard. Maybe. I dunno.
 * Personally, I don’t find 100k very large in the grand scheme of things.
 * Also personally, I find those feeds in my Dashboard (aka “the dash”) often annoying.
   Here’s a thread that addresses some options towards eliminating them.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53586?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53586?replies=4)
 * You can also just manually remove the lines of code in /wp-admin/index.php if
   you’d like.
 *  Thread Starter [pilsschouler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pilsschouler/)
 * (@pilsschouler)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360523)
 * apologies! have seen other threads with less than helpful comments.
 * this link looks excellent. I shall atempt and post results.
 * A sincere thankyou and apology.
 * :]
 *  [chiunam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chiunam/)
 * (@chiunam)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-and-wp_options/#post-360930)
 * I got the same problem and it takes very large amount of my database.
 * There are 2xxx records which are similar to pilsschouler’s. I found that most
   of them are duplicated with same option_name & option_value. It took total about
   3xMB of my DB!
 * I am not sure what’s going wrong and now I just delete those records and turn
   off the feed of dashboard. The database then becomes to less than 1MB :\
 * It may be a bug of WP as i aslo found some duplicated options which probably 
   come from other plugins but they are just very small amount compared with WP’s
   feed.
 * Hope this information could help the developers to solve the problems.

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