Title: Large Site Losing Admin Functionality
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Large Site Losing Admin Functionality

 *  [WPAndrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpandrew/)
 * (@wpandrew)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/large-site-losing-admin-functionality/)
 * I have a site with about 6000 pages (no posts). Somewhere between 4000-5000 pages
   is where my admin breaks, in the respect that when I view all pages I can not
   use quick edit or screen options. When I am editing an existing page the Page
   Attributes area always appears with a message:
 * “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/name/public_html/
   wp-includes/post.php on line xxxx”
 * This creates a problem when I want to re-assign pages to different parents as
   both methods are not working. Also, I also can not edit my urls.
 * I had my host temporarily increase the timeout to something ridiculously long–
   I cant remember exactly what message I received but it didn’t help.
 * I also tried deactivating all of my plugins but the results were the same.
 * I edited my php-config file to disallow post revisions, changed autosave to 160
   seconds and disable javascript concatenation.
 * I have searched and found a few people with similar problems with no clear sense
   of resolution.
 * I am actually not very technical and I am surprised I was able to make the changes
   that I have made. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions or does WP become
   less stable after a certain number of pages are published?
 * Thank you in advance.

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/large-site-losing-admin-functionality/#post-4031792)
 * 6000 pages? Wow! That’s a fair amount! Can you provide the exact line number 
   the error message reports?
 *  Thread Starter [WPAndrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpandrew/)
 * (@wpandrew)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/large-site-losing-admin-functionality/#post-4031795)
 * Sure, it usually changes though. After going into edit mode on two particular
   pages they were at 3492 the first two page loads and then 3497 and the second
   two page load attempts. I am guessing that is where it “gives up” as I think 
   the returned line numbers usually aren’t consistent over a larger pool of attempts.

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## Tags

 * [admin not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-not-working/)
 * [large sites](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/large-sites/)
 * [page attributes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page-attributes/)

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 * Last reply from: [WPAndrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpandrew/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/large-site-losing-admin-functionality/#post-4031795)
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