Title: [Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Browser freezing Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Browser freezing * [skywriting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skywriting/) * (@skywriting) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/) * YAARP is always crashing/freezing my browser when I attempt to enter the options panel. The example display seems to be the problem. I don’t need an answer. I’m just disabling the plugin on my sites. Too much overhead anyway. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/page/2/?output_format=md) * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237030) * [@skywriting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skywriting/) – I’ve heard of such issues when a site has a large number of tags or categories. Is that the case for you? * I’ve also heard in such cases that another browser such as Safari may be better than Firefox or IE. * [kosaytak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosaytak/) * (@kosaytak) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237032) * I have the same problem. I have a large number of tags. The browser completely freezes and stop working. * [beggers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beggers/) * (@beggers) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237039) * I have the same problem. I have 2000+ posts and about 4000+ tags. The browser locks up as the tags start to load. There should be a way to disable the loading of all tags, especially if I’m not even using tags as a criteria. * YARPP was really working great until I passed the 1000+ post mark. I love this program but it hangs up my browser every time I hit the options page. * I haven’t tried a cache program yet but I don’t think it would solve this problem as long as the options page tries to load all my 4000+ tags. * If you can resolve this I’d love to starting using YARPP again! * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237103) * Sorry, this issue has not been resolved yet. On the todo list. * [antster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antster/) * (@antster) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237109) * Cheers Mitcho. Same problem here dude. Looking forward to using this plugin when resolved. * Ant 🙂 * [ppskb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppskb/) * (@ppskb) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237111) * Ditto, * Great plugin, but hangs when there are lots of tags, or its a big post. * Will have to disable until their is a fix. * Cheers, Keith * [ppskb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppskb/) * (@ppskb) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237112) * Or if you want to still use the plugin, you can change the “relatedness option” and select do not consider tags. This seems to speed up and prevent the page from crashing. * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237113) * [@ppskb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppskb/) – not considering tags indeed does speed up things, but only the actual relatedness queries… this is totally unrelated to how the options screen hangs. * [rzeisler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rzeisler/) * (@rzeisler) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237114) * I was having similar browser freezing. I was using YARPP from day one with on issues. I was also using a small number of posts/tags/categories (less then 50 posts). I used a wordpress import/export file to import a large number of posts/ tags/categories (2K posts/4.5K tags/50 categories) and at the same time upgraded from 3.1.6 to 3.1.7. I started experiencing long wait times when attempting to edit a post and always failing when trying to delete groups of posts (select a full page of posts to trash). * I started looking a the linux server (Centos 5.4) using top and would see mysqld max out (100%) the cpu and not come back before the browser would timeout. I downgraded YARPP to the previous version (3.1.6) with no change in behavior. I then went through and deactivated all of my plugins. Now the same functions I tried (edit/delete) worked fine (as I expected). I then started reactivating my plugins one-by-one. Non problems with any of the plugins until I reactivated YARPP (3.1.6)…same mysqld pegging the cpu. I upgraded to 3.1.7 (just to verify that it wasn’t a version issue) and it pegged the cpu as well. I then deactivated YARPP and mysqld behaved fine. * I read this post and took the suggestion to turn off the “consider tags” option, activated YARPP (3.1.7) and all worked fine…cpu was not pegged by mysqld. * One other note…this all started because of the slow response I noticed with wordpress. I attempted to tune the database by using the following params in my.cnf. The params are based on suggestions from mysqltuner.pl (a mysql tuner analysis script): * ``` # mysqltuner recommendations skip-innodb skip-bdb query_cache_size = 128M query_cache_limit = 16M tmp_table_size = 128M key_buffer_size = 128M max_heap_table_size = 32M thread_cache_size = 8 table_cache = 512 ``` * These params didn’t appear to make a difference one way or another in the cpu maxing out when using YARPP with large number of tags. * I was using 1GB of RAM and 1 CPU in a VMWare VServer 1.x environment when I started. I bumped up the RAM to 2GB and 2 CPUs with not difference in mysqld’s behavior( except now I could suck up more then 100% of the CPUs). * I hope this helps with tuning YARPP to handle large number of tags. It is an awesome add on and saves a lot of work with find related posts, something that I did in the old system by hand. * One other item of info…I am using WordPress 2.9.2. This the version I have always used with YARPP. I just started using WordPress about a month ago and love it. * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237115) * [@rzeisler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rzeisler/) thanks a lot for sharing your experience. * [Big Fish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-fish/) * (@big-fish) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237123) * I have a large amount of tags and I’m experiencing the same problem. * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237124) * This is a known issue and I’ve been told some browsers handle this better than others. I hope to get around to implementing a workaround in the future. * [Big Fish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-fish/) * (@big-fish) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237125) * Does 3.1.8 fix this issue? * [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * (@mitchoyoshitaka) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237126) * Big Fish, no, I did not tackle this in 3.1.8. 🙁 * [Big Fish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-fish/) * (@big-fish) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/#post-1237127) * [http://www.0092ff.com/wordpress/prevent-yarpp-options-from-hanging-while-loading-tags](http://www.0092ff.com/wordpress/prevent-yarpp-options-from-hanging-while-loading-tags) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Browser freezing’ is closed to new replies. * 18 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchoyoshitaka/) * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-browser-freezing/page/2/#post-1237132) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics