id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16799	Bloated Custom Menus	kingkool68		"tl;dr = WordPress should limit the size of auto generated descriptions for menus. Ideally there should be no menu item descriptions. 


I'm working on a project that uses a lot of custom menus. So many custom menus in fact that editing them nearly brings my server to it's knees. (10 menus x 70 items each maximum 2 levels deep)

The biggest problem I found is WordPress loads a description with each menu item. I had to turn off JavaScript to even see this field and that's when I saw large blobs of content are being loaded with each and every menu items. 

When loading one menu Firebug clocked the HTML page weighing in at 2.3MB. I went to my database and ran the following SQL to remove the offending blurbs of bloated text...

UPDATE `posts` SET `post_content` = '' WHERE `post_type` LIKE 'nav_menu_item';

This reduced the page weight by half to 1.1MB. The menu still took a bit to load but now I could save it back to the database successfully.

Other work arounds to make custom menus usable included raising the max execution time for PHP on my server and increasing the $_POST and $_GET size limit. 

Custom menus need to go on diet. "	enhancement	closed	normal	3.3	Menus	3.1	normal	fixed	has-patch	scribu kawauso