Reply To: Problem when deleting terms
Hi again,
We currently have approximately 550 terms across our taxonomies: around 500 in the custom series taxonomy, 37 categories and 3 tags.
The problem occurs regardless of which taxonomy we use. Creating or deleting terms produces the same behaviour, so I suspect that the total number of terms may be relevant. The problem first appeared when the site had somewhere around 200–300 terms.
I have tried to isolate the issue as carefully as I can. With WordPress core and no plugins active, term creation and deletion work normally. If I then activate BuddyPress as the only plugin, the problem returns.
I have also tested the opposite configuration: all plugins are active except BuddyPress, and term creation and deletion continue to work normally.
It does not matter whether I activate BuddyPress first or last. As soon as BuddyPress is activated, the problem appears. If BuddyPress is the only active plugin, the problem occurs. If all the other plugins are active but BuddyPress is disabled, the problem does not occur.
I find this particularly interesting because it suggests that the issue is not simply caused by the total number of plugins or by a conflict between several plugins. BuddyPress appears to be the component that triggers the problem, possibly in combination with the number of terms or the server environment.
I understand that this does not necessarily prove that BuddyPress itself contains a bug. However, the fact that BuddyPress alone is sufficient to trigger the problem seems significant.
Our server uses Apache MPM Event and PHP-FPM, but these are standard configurations and have not been specially modified for this purpose.
I would be interested to know whether other BuddyPress sites use similarly large numbers of terms without problems, and whether this has been tested by the development team.
I realise that this may be an interaction between WordPress, BuddyPress, the number of terms and the server environment rather than a straightforward BuddyPress bug. Nevertheless, if someone from the BuddyPress development team could take a closer look at what happens in this situation in our system, I would be extremely grateful.
Thank you.
