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WordPress Database
4 articles in the WordPress Database category.
- Cleaning up wp_postmeta bloat at scale without locking the site Orphaned postmeta from deactivated plugins can outweigh wp_posts ten to one. The safe path is primary-key chunked deletes that respect replication lag.
- WordPress autoload audit — finding the 100MB option loading on every request Bloated autoloaded options silently inflate every PHP request. Here is how to find the culprit, decide what to keep, and prevent the next plugin from doing it again.
- WordPress database query optimization: reading Query Monitor properly Query Monitor on a WordPress site exposes the queries, the callers, and the time costs — but only if you know which columns matter. The audit pattern that turns Query Monitor output into a fix list.
- Auditing wp_options bloat and the 50 MB autoload row wp_options is small until it is not. Tracing an autoloaded blob, transient debris and plugin housekeeping that never ran turns a sluggish admin back into a fast one.