EDD large logs database

Hi @ecomsight

These entries contain the information that helps WordPress know if there is an update for these licensed products that use EDD’s commercial Software Licensing extension. They typically will contain the changelog of the plugin that the developers add to the products.

There are two important things to note:

1. These options are not autoloaded, which means while they are larger options in the database, they are only used when necessary (when WordPress checks for plugin updates) and not loaded with every page load.
2. From the screenshot we cannot determine what plugin the entry is for (it would be listed in the option value which is being shown as an array here), but as of Software Licensing 3.6.10, the Changelog does support WordPress’s native ‘Read More’ tag to help prevent this from happening.

There is more information for the developers on the Changelog Read More in our documentation: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/docs/software-licensing-changelogs/

It is not advisable to remove these as they will eventually populate again when the plugin checks in for an update again. The most ideal situation is to determine what plugin it is for, and inform the developer of the option to add the readmore tag to their changelogs so they are truncated for the use of the API response that is stored in the customer’s database.

Hi Chris,

Ok thank you for the explanation and your quick reply!