Title: Timeout on publishing lost post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Timeout on publishing lost post

 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-by-publishing-lost-post/)
 * Every once in a while I get timeouts when publishing ‘long’ posts. It’s not browser
   or browser cache and can hardly be the server because trashing, restoring, publishing
   short posts, etc. all works just fine. When I (re)publish a long post, I get 
   a timeout and only the first 68 words (292/359 signs with and without spaces)
   are published (the last sign is the “i” of “is”, I haven’t counted the number
   of signs in other occasions.
    Any thoughts anyone?

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 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-by-publishing-lost-post/#post-1633753)
 * A clue. I’m a few hours later and I publish the ‘long post’ (332 words) without
   problems. I noticed that the image I used is not alligned correctly and the quickest
   way to solve that is using the visual editor. So I center the image, hit ‘update’
   and guess what…?
 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-by-publishing-lost-post/#post-1633928)
 * I have experimented a little. I disabled the visual editor, no result. I tried
   making a new post, no result and it doesn’t matter if that be a custom post type
   or just a post. Then I edited the post directly in the database, it saves without
   problems, but I noticed that when I edited something later, like the comment 
   status which for some reason always defaults on ‘closed’ in these occasions, 
   the larger part of the post is deleted (the 68 words)! Does that mean anything
   to anyone? Could that mean that WP is not the problem?
 * [edit] according to the wp security plugin “PHP Memory Limit : 256M”, that sounds
   enough, right?
 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-by-publishing-lost-post/#post-1633934)
 * Argh, the database ‘fix’ is but temporarily. I can make the post working and 
   leave, but when I check back after some time, post post content is cut off, this
   time after only a few words (and in the middle of an html statement which makes
   the whole blog go crazy). What could be going on? The post breaks when WP has
   to get it from the database?
 * [edit] and now I can edit the post without problems, that is to say, besides 
   the fact that the built-in image-additor makes an incorrect alignment code. No
   timeouts, no half posts, no clue 🙂

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-by-publishing-lost-post/#post-1633934)
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