Might be problematic on a site with millions of users

  • Hey guys,

    We just installed this plugin after we changed our permalinks structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postaname%/ but after this the server load was going up and up… We did this because there are thousands of posts inside WordPress and manually redirecting them to the new URL would be a pain.

    As for the load, we saw it climbing from 1.5 – 3, to 25 or even 40! OMG! That’s because the site has almost 150,000 users per day and I guess this plugin doesn’t behave well with huge amount of traffic. We have caching enabled (W3 Total Cache and Cloudflare), but even though server load wouldn’t go down 20.

    I don’t know if it’s because after the permalink change WordPress does more queries to display the category as well in the URL, or if the plugin is to blame. But after we turned off the plugin and changed permalink setting back to /%postname%/ everything went back to normal.

    Anyone else have an issue on large scale website?

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  • Plugin Author fabioneves

    (@fabioneves)

    Hello there!

    The plugin doesn’t use any cache technique, it solely rely on WP db query.
    If you enable memcache, the get_posts function the plugin uses should be able to use the cache WP will create.

    The plugin will only affect your website if you get a lot of 404’s.

    Maybe in the future we can implement some sort of cache to it.

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