Title: Performance Question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Performance Question

 *  Resolved [atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atooley/)
 * (@atooley)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-question-2/)
 * 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://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/)

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 *  [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
 * (@wpmudev-support1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-question-2/#post-5498800)
 * Hi [@atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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/](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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