wp_options fills with per-visitor autoloaded rows
The plugin writes a wp_options row for each visitor, so the database fills with tens of thousands of autoloaded entries that slow every page.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 December 2023 · last reported 4 November 2024
What's going wrong
Site owners running the Customize Tawk.to Widget plugin report that it saves a new option row into the WordPress options table for each visitor, and those rows autoload on every page load.
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 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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