Title: Plugin has completely cluttered the database
Last modified: April 9, 2025

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# Plugin has completely cluttered the database

 *  [kareswebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kareswebdesign/)
 * (@kareswebdesign)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-completely-cluttered-the-database/)
 * Hi, I used your plugin for 3 weeks and it was all fine. Until yesterday my site
   completely went down. The server storage was full. We checked and saw that your
   plugin has created 2,5 million!!! entries in the database. I went to my hosting
   support and here is what they said:
 * We have analyzed it further as promised. The Cache Warmer plugin has cluttered
   your database. It has generated over 2.7 million entries. Failures should no 
   longer occur if the plugin remains deactivated. We are already working on deleting
   the entries for you. However, this will probably take days so as not to overload
   the server and cause another outage. Accordingly, we are proceeding carefully
   and deleting in batches of 2,000. A batch takes about 2.5 hours to be deleted.
   A careful deletion would therefore take 140 days. We are currently looking into
   how we can speed up the process if necessary.
 * In any case, you should contact the plugin manufacturer. We have never experienced
   anything like this and it indicates a massive error in the plugin or the configuration
   of the plugin.
   Just for comparison, an average WordPress database has around 
   500,000 entries. In your case, just two tables already account for 2.7 million
   entries.
 * The entries that have been made have been written to the wp_options table and
   starting with wp_cache_warmer_warm_up
   Can you clarify what went wrong here?

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-completely-cluttered-the-database/)
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