Too many taxonomies?

  • I have a WP site that uses taxonomies to create a directory. I have two taxonomies, one for the directory structure and one for locations (ie state,city.) I downloaded a zipcode database with all the US cities and used this to create a hierarchical taxonomy for state > city. There is about 30,000 terms in this taxonomy. Now certain pages and plugins that use this taxonomy take forever to load and usually timeout.

    Is there a limit to how many terms WP can handle for one taxonomy?

    Is there anything I could do to optimize the taxonomies?

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  • 30.000 is a lot of course but it depends on which plugins you use and which pages you load. Especially some plugins are not very well optimized for heavy sites. You can try to track them down and maybe help the respective plugin authors to optimize.

    You can check your mysql slow query log for instance to see what shows up as being too slow.

    Also are these pages trying to load and show all terms? That might be problematic as the output will get very big.

    There is not one simple answer to this. Usually if you create things this big it’s food for experts on large site optimization and WordPress.

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