Title: Slow post edit load
Last modified: April 1, 2018

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# Slow post edit load

 *  [widescreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/widescreen/)
 * (@widescreen)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-post-edit-load/)
 * Hi John, I noticed a slow post edit page load.
 * I did run Query Monitor ad it says that the
    -  INFAMOUS
 *  meta_form() that runs the query
 *     ```
       SELECT DISTINCT meta_key 
       FROM etc... 
       ```
   
 * is the slowest query: 0.2241
 * Weird thing: if I deactivate Query Monitor, the page loads up in less than a 
   second.
 * I don’t need Query Monitor on every single request, so not big deal, but I thought
   this info could be useful for you in the development of the plugin.
 * Thanks!!

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 *  Plugin Author [John Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbillion/)
 * (@johnbillion)
 * WordPress Core Developer
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-post-edit-load/#post-10140288)
 * Thanks for the message.
 * Does the slowness happen consistently on the post editing screen or does it only
   happen occasionally? If it’s occasional it might be a transient that expires 
   and needs to be repopulated.
 * The newly introduced Capability Checks panel in QM does have some performance
   issues on sites which perform a large number of user capability checks. So this
   might be slowing things down on that screen. (It’ll be off by default in the 
   next version.)

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