Post IDs counts increasing by approximately 1000 per day?

  • I have a WordPress setup where the Post IDs are increasing quickly, like approximately 1,000+ per day. This causes WooCommerce invoice numbers to increase rapidly, as expected. There are few posts and not much activity to have them increase like that. Is there any suggestions on how to debug this issue?

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  • Hi, you could look into the database to see what’s happening. There could be malicious actors that write spam posts or it could just be a plugin, you should definitely check the database table _posts

    Thread Starter EGF

    (@ericgf)

    Thank you for the suggestion. I checked posts and didn’t see any issue there but there is a “Posts Type Count” listing from WooCommerce –> Status, and it shows a list of post types with one of them being “options” and the number shown here is increasing. Is there any easy way to see the contents of this? This will give me a clue of what is being written here.

    Thread Starter EGF

    (@ericgf)

    seeing these sequential GUIDs in the posts table being written… post type= options..there are posts of the favicons?

    https://www.mywebsite.com/?post_type=options&p=49999

    Thread Starter EGF

    (@ericgf)

    I was able to track the code where it was writing these posts, and temporarily disabled that code. The theme was modified to support a new version of php, so it may be broken somewhere.

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