Duplicated post meta cleanup stalls on large sites
Duplicated post meta cleanup runs for hours on large sites, the count never drops, and some runs never finish.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 7 July 2025 · last reported 3 October 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners with large WordPress databases report that the Duplicated Post Meta cleanup in Database Cleaner runs for hours and sometimes never completes.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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