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Anyways I just looked and there’s no overhead for any of my tables – all is well ??

I’m also on 1and1, but I doubt that I’m anywhere close to 800,000 words – my blog only has about 150 posts total. Anyways I don’t know where I could look to count it.

I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with the MySQL db, as this problem *only* happens when we publish posts where there are links. Saving the posts in the db as drafts is instant. And if as mirdin says the problem of slow publishing occurs right after a clean install, then…

It feels like a bug in the code – maybe it’s still pinging all the links even though the option is not checked?

It seems that some people who uncheck “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)” are getting very lucky, and it magically fixes the problem. Not so for the rest of us! I’m still having the if-post-contains-many-links-it-takes-5-to-10-minutes-to-post problem, but I’m glad that I finally know I’m not alone in this.

Any chance of a WP guru to weigh in on this issue?

After some more testing on my end, I’ve gotten the following (odd!) results:

When a link is included pointing to the root of a site (for example, [a href=”https://www.cbc.ca”%5Dlink%5B/a%5D), the posting is instant.

However, add more to the tree of the site (for example, [a href=”https://www.cbc.ca/x”%5Dlink%5B/a%5D), and I get the long delay.

I disabled all my plugins to be sure, and the same case still happens.

Finally, the option “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)” is _not_ checked, same for “Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)”.

Please, someone, save us poor lads from turning old and grey waiting for our posts to publish!

This is probably the same problem as I’ve experienced – for some reason (for me at least) posts without links publish almost instantly, but put a link in there, and I’m waiting 5+ minutes for the software to finish whatever it’s doing.

A workaround or a hack would be wonderful!

Bumpy…

Surely there must be some way to fix this problem… It can’t be normal to have to wait so long for certain types of posts. At least, are other people experiencing the same thing?

I have the same problem, using 1.5, and that option you mention (macmanx) was the first thing I turned off…

After testing this a whole bunch (I’m re-categorizing posts, and therefore need to re-save them), I found that for posts with many links in them, the 5-minute+ problem occurs. When re-saving posts with only text or pictures (but no links), the posting is very quick as it should be.

I’ve removed all ping URLs in the update notification box, and it seems to help very slightly – but we’re talking about a 30 second difference here.

It’s almost as if even though the option to “notify any weblogs linked…” is not checked, WP 1.5 *still* thinks that it is, and does it anyways.

Does anyone have any other idea why this is happening? Or maybe a workaround? At 5+ minutes a post (btw, that’s a conservative estimate!), I’ll be re-categorizing for the next few months!

Thanks so much! I’ll give it a try!

I posted a ticket in the spaminator plugin directory three days ago, but no answer as of yet. I’m also hesitant to post a comment directly kitty’s blog page with a somewhat basic question.

Doh. Any idea how I could go about doing this?