Title: Too many postst
Last modified: November 8, 2021

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# Too many postst

 *  [dslippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dslippy/)
 * (@dslippy)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/)
 * My site has a current total of 280k posts. They are all pure text, with many 
   quite small.
    I update several hundred a day, and add perhaps a hundred new posts
   per day.
 * The site contains legal case references – one case, one post. I still have a 
   further 220k candidates to be added over time.
 * I recently hit a problem with the updater plugin demanding more memory than my
   host will provide.
 * I need to start by understanding the structures here. What is it that is demanding
   the memory? I imagine that the updater program – which no doubt checks proposed
   updating posts against the titles of existing posts – creates a list of the existing
   posts in order to check incoming updating records againat existing ones. Is it
   likely to be that list which is causing the crash?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftoo-many-postst%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15048439)
 * “the updater plugin” Which plugin is that?
 *  Thread Starter [dslippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dslippy/)
 * (@dslippy)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15048481)
 * Thank you:
    wp all import
 * I suspect however that it is a matter of principle. If I am right then a similar
   aapproach is liable to be taken by other plugins tackling the same task.
 * I cannot imagine someone wanting to redo an entire plugin just for me. It may
   be that I need an entirely different approach. To get a starting point I need
   to understand better where the problem may be.
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15048539)
 * So is it correct that are you using this plugin ([https://www.wpallimport.com/](https://www.wpallimport.com/))
   to bulk import posts from an xml, excel or csv file, and the plugin is requesting
   more memory to complete the request?
 * Perhaps the plugin support could best advise if you merely need more memory allocated,
   or if there is a need to categorise in a more granular way so there are fewer
   posts for each category, to add additional taxonomies to help ease the database
   queries.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15048561)
 * If you’re using the paid version, please use their official support channel. 
   We feel they are best equipped to support their products.
 * [https://www.wpallimport.com/support](https://www.wpallimport.com/support)
 * **Commercial products are [not supported in these forums](https://make.wordpress.org/support/trouble/section-1-getting-started/what-is-not-supported).**
 * If the free version, I recommend asking at [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-all-import/#new-post](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-all-import/#new-post)
   so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.
 *  Thread Starter [dslippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dslippy/)
 * (@dslippy)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15049679)
 * > Perhaps the plugin support could best advise if you merely need more memory
   > allocated, or if there is a need to categorise in a more granular way so there
   > are fewer posts for each category, to add additional taxonomies to help ease
   > the database queries.
 * I am not sure that I have explained myself. I cannot see how the categories have
   any relevance. The updates are done on a per post basis without referencevto 
   categories at all.
 * To be fair to the authors, I cannot see that they should support a user who is
   not paying, but equally, there is no point me paying for something that in principle
   is not going to work.
 * Which is why I come back again to generalising the question. If te approach taken
   by wpallimport is a standard and obvious way then moving to a different plug 
   in is likely to have the same difficulty.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-postst/#post-15049679)
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