Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds AGAIN

Upgraded a client’s blog to WordPress 2.5 and now getting this very issue (they weren’t beforehand):

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/site/www/site.com/wp-includes/post.php on line 1272

Is this something that more people are experiencing since 2.5?

I am getting

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/wordpress25/wp-includes/classes.php on line 422 (line can be +-5)

during output 1000+ nested caregories (3 levels of depth) after upgrade. When categories are not nested (set wp_term_taxonomy.parent=0 for all) it taken few seconds on localhost. In WP 2.3 all was OK with nested

I’ve noticed over the last couple of days that this error has been happening when I access my dashboard, though I’ve chalked it up to a poor connection at home. However, today at work where connectivity is never an issue, I’ve been getting this error all day long. It happens when I go directly to my main URL, to the wp-admin, wp-admin/themes, etc. At this point, I can’t even get into my admin to post or investigate anything. I haven’t made any modifications to my theme or site since I noticed this happening, so I’m at a loss as to what could be causing it.

Is it my site or could it be my host causing a time out?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

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I had encoutered this problem when I post an article in a title of posted article.
when I post the article in a new title, the problem did not occur anymore.

Hi Friends!
I also had the same problem which was [Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
/home/nepalhk/domains/nepal.hk/public_html/wp-includes/post.php on line 1272], it occured when I upgraded wp to 2.5. Sometimes, I had to post dozens of articles together and because of the perticular error, I get stuck on one or two or three posts for a long time and it couldn’t evenget published.
But, I don’t know what exactly the prblms there, I somehow managed to pass that through. If you happened to have this error, just go bak to the edit page and change a bit on your post’s title, then you are off.
Prakash K.C.
https://www.nepal.hk

@nepalhk thanks for the information. I am suspecting the the problem is caused by redundant post title. Gotta post a feature request/bug report so that wordpress returns a more helpful error message when an article with a redundant title is posted.

It IS because of the redundant post title. I had the same problem and solved it by changing the title!

This issue is ongoing with me as well. When I try to make a new post I get this error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/jedisteiger/pages/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 274

It happens on ALL the wordpress blogs I’ve got on my server (about 11). I’ve added php.ini changes to 600 seconds, and checked out Apache for a time limit, and nothing unusual. All the sites work perfectly, except we can not post a blog.

Help? I’ve also re-installed the OS with nothing special (Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition). Reloaded all the MySQL and web site directories and files back ups. So I’m “assuming” it is in either the MySQL databases, or WordPress files that there is an error.

Any suggestions on where to go look next?

Thank you,
Justin

67comet – might list your host, web-server software, web-server version, PHP version, and MySQL version

Sorry for the delay, been pretty busy.

I installed a fresh directory of wordpress, new MySQL database and it works fine. I’ve got so many users with full sites now I really would rather NOT tell them “start over”.

Here is my data:
SysInfo
CPU AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
1024mb RAM
250gig www/hdd
40gig OS/hdd
Ubuntu Server Edition (8.04)

WP 2.5.1
Apache 2.2.8
MySQL 5.0.51
PHP 5?

I’m sure it is probably a simple syntax error between my restored copies of MySQL and what was in the wordpress directory for all the sites (each site has their own wordpress directory with in their own web directories).

Hope this helps,
Justin

I just ran into this problem last night too, on line 274 of plugin.php. I encountered it during an import of a small WXR file. It always stops at the same point in the file, and always on that line in plugin.php.

I don’t know where it’s getting the “60 seconds” value from though – I updated php.ini temporarily and increased the value to 600, but it still complains about 60. Weird.

Me too; and I have a client beating my door down to finish their migration. What is this? I uninstalled Google Sitemaps to no avail.

I’ve still got the error. If I add a new database to MySQL and drop a fresh WordPress directory in it all works as advertised. This leads me to think it might be something with MySQL and the way it was backed up and restored.

I did a temp fix to all my users by giving them green wordpress starting points, but I keep their original wordpress directories untouched but accessible via the www to keep testing things.

I hit up the IRC rooms and they suggested I kill all my plugins, did that to no help. Tried to clean out all tabled in MySQL and that didn’t help (lost all the blogs so I had to reload them all from back up).

Since ALL the sites have the exact same error it leads me to MySQL or something that changed in WP in between the backup and the reinstall.

Anyone got anywhere else to start looking?

Thank you,
Justin

Update .. I just tried to update a previous post on my server and it works great, I just can’t add a new post.

I solved this problem (Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in /home/site/www/site.com/wp-includes/plugins.php on line 274) by editing the wp-includes/functions.php in line 600.

Originally, its: “$buf = fread( $fp, 4096 );”
But I changed it: “$buf = fread( $fp, 16384 );”

Works for me! However, I am not sure of the repurcussions though…