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    (@atooley)


    So I have been using this plugin for a while now and it works great, but I do have a performance question.

    From looking at the DB, it appears all of the custom sidebar widgets that are text widgets are stored in one cell.

    Currently, my site has ~130 pages and I have different content in the sidebar on almost every page with text widgets. So with ~4 widgets per page, I am using ~500 custom text widgets. I like to be able to control these at the page level for optimal internal linking.

    I notice when I load the custom sidebars page in the admin, it takes a little while to load. The site seems to load fine, but I was wondering what happens if I create a site with 300 pages and 1200 custom text sidebar widgets?

    To reduce the amount of actual text data being stored in the DB, for widgets that I reuse on several pages, I actually created a short-code that contains the text. This also allows me to update the content in one place and have it roll out across the site.

    (When I set this up, the feature to clone widgets was not available. I found another plugin to clone widgets, but was worried they might eventually run into compatibility issues, so the shortcode method seemed to work better)

    I also run other short codes like page-list in these widgets.

    Just wondering if you foresee any performance issues with having too many text widgets in the DB?

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/custom-sidebars/

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  • Hi @atooley,

    I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

    When I set this up, the feature to clone widgets was not available.

    The feature to clone widgets is only available in the following pro version of this plugin and not in this free plugin version.

    http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custom-sidebars-pro/

    Just wondering if you foresee any performance issues with having too many text widgets in the DB?

    No we don’t foresee any performance issues with having too many text widgets in the DB and actually we are going to improve plugin performance more in the future version of plugin.

    If you face any issue with it then feel free to ask us as we’re here to help you 🙂

    Cheers,
    WPMU DEV

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