Opened 7 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#43211 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)
Large number of widgets freezes the browser and makes widget admin unusable
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.8.3 |
| Component: | Widgets | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | ui, performance | Cc: |
Description
Having a large number of widgets can freeze the browser for minutes while loading, and crashes Firefox when viewing source. On a site with a little more than 500 widgets (mostly text widgets!) it can be completely unresponsive for some time loading wp-admin/widgets.php
Tested in Firefox and Chrome beta.
Change History (3)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #accessibility by afercia. View the logs.
7 years ago
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6 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
Hello,
If you have 500+ Text Widgets –which is huge!– I'd say your best bet is to handle that with a custom post type and to add them dynamically to your Widget areas. I'm closing the ticket as wontfix for now but feel free to reopen it if needed. I believe that the issue does not depends on WordPress Core but mostly on your website architecture.
Removing the accessibility focus as it's more related to performance than universal access and WCAG.