Excessive transients created that contain entire posts and comments

  • Within the last month, the number of transients being created has increased dramatically. No new plugins were installed and I disabled most of them to look for an effect.

    These “new” transients have a couple of odd characteristics:
    1. The wp-optimize plugin doesn’t “see” them. I did a SQL query (DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE (‘%\_transient\_%’)) finds a few transients but none of the “new” type.

    2. All of them expire exactly one month after they are created.

    3. They contain the full text of posts, comments, and other site text in HTML.

    4. The option name is identified by a long hex string (_transient_b73f56bed09336b0d29d243fc96d7fa9)

    They are created very quickly. Prior to the start of this problem, transient growth was slow and easily managed. Now, transients grow at a rate of over 15,000 a day.

    The plugin Transient Cleaner will delete all if I run it manually.

    I’m not sure but this problem may have started with version 4.5.3. I’ve tried all the obvious (i.e.: deactivate plugins) ways to find the root cause.

    Any thoughts?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    are you using any caching or “optimization” plugins?

    Thread Starter SeattleLion

    (@seattlelion)

    I am using wp-supercache. I disabled it and the transients kept coming. As I understand it wp-supercache generates flat files, not db records.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    hmmm… anything else? It’s got to be some plugin or theme that’s creating them.

    Here’s an idea: install the plugin “query monitor”. It shows output in the admin bar. Look at a post and see what queries were run by what plugins. Maybe you an identify what code is looking for the transient; it would be safe to assume it’s the same one that created it.

    Thread Starter SeattleLion

    (@seattlelion)

    Thanks for the help! It looks like the plugin CM Tooltip Glossary Pro is creating all the transients in the database. I will keep my eye on things and see if this is the case.

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