id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 16846 wp_dashboard_recent_comments can generate hundreds of queries ocean90 "''Reported by a good friend.'' '''How to reproduce it: ''' You need a site with > 4000 comments. Now go to the dashboard, recent comments widget and change the number of comments to show too 3. '''What will happen: ''' You get a slowly backend because of ~100 queries more. '''How to fix it: ''' {{{/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php}}} line 612, instead of the static number {{{5}}} it should be {{{$total_items}}}. Related: r16922 " defect (bug) closed high 3.1.1 Comments 3.0 normal fixed has-patch