Caution with 4.0 update: Causes server errors

  • Resolved powcom

    (@powcom)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    We upgraded to 4.0 from 3.9 yesterday evening.

    All of this morning we’ve been having server issues, taking our back end down, so we can’t edit posts. Serving of the site to readers has also occurred. Not good obviously.

    Our server guys have looked at it and identified Yoast SEO as the issue.

    They tell me, “I’m seeing a lot of 504/502s being initiated from an admin-ajax.php process.

    “It’s running the heartbeat call and the ‘wpseo_filter_shortcodes_nonce’ call multiple times in a single instance. ”

    The evidence they presented is below.

    Can you take an urgent look at this please. I know 4.0 has great features, but they’re not of use if it’s taking our server down.

    Thanks in advance for your help

    _From server
    The problem is the WordPress SEO plugin:

    $ tail -f wp-content/__wpe_admin_ajax.log | grep “\[action\]”
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => heartbeat
    [action] => wpseo_filter_shortcodes
    [action] => wpseo_filter_shortcodes
    [action] => wpseo_filter_shortcodes
    [action] => wpseo_filter_shortcodes

    $ ack-grep heartbeat
    css/dist/yoast-components-400-rtl.css
    608:@keyframes heartbeat {
    625: animation: heartbeat 1.15s infinite;

    $ ack-grep wpseo_filter_shortcodes
    admin/ajax/class-shortcode-filter.php
    17: add_action( ‘wp_ajax_wpseo_filter_shortcodes’, array( $this, ‘do_filter’ ) );

    admin/metabox/class-metabox.php
    283: ‘wpseo_filter_shortcodes_nonce’ => wp_create_nonce( ‘wpseo-filter-shortcodes’ ),

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  • neotrope

    (@neotrope)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    We are not having this issue with our server or any of our sites with WP 4.7 and Yoast SEO 4.0.

    One thought, make sure you’re running PHP 5.6 and not PHP 5.4. And if running PHP 7 make sure you check ALL your plugins are compatible.

    Thread Starter powcom

    (@powcom)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the reply. I’m running WP 4.6.1 – any issues with that?

    Will check other points later.

    tekgirlymama

    (@tekgirlymama)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    my site and backend died too. only cure is to go in via FTP and add to this stinking plugin an underscore to deactivate it. then you have your site alive again and can seek a better plugin, like the SEO Fram,ework. simpler, does the job and never issues. I suffred a week of lost time fixing when they made version 3 and moved most all my sites to the other plugin, though on one big ecom was an issue to migrate so due to lack of time to deal with it I still keep yoast here. never know when again it kills my site, PITA of development team they have.

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