Editor performance issues

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  shankarkrish · Member · Mar 28, 2016 at 1:57 am

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  I am having serious performance issues in editing pages on my blog site.
  When I am working with posts containing little content there is no problem, but once the content gets beyond some threshold and also depending on the content in the page (links to media for example), the editor becomes quite unusable. Pasting links result in some random scrolling and on occassions the links are included as text etc which are tolerable. But on a page woth a lot of content, addition of content is like watching paint dry. The page is unresponsive for up to 20-30 seconds after a word or a few words are entered (frequency is quite random and sometimes for every character that I enter) and on occassion the information I have typed is lost in the cyberspace. What should have taken me 30 minutes took 3 hours and that too by using Notepad to create the content and paste into wordpress editor.

  Reading thru the forums and looking at the behavior of the page, it appears that some fancy feature that they seem to have added results in an ajax call to their server each time I type a letter or word which results in poor performance (CPU utilization shoots up during this time); and the problem becomes progressively worse with larger content and that was the problem I had to content with. And this problem seems to have been around for several months now.

  I am shocked that wordpress is this behavior of the editor unaddressed. In the forums I did read that the problem is linked to the use of a plugin called yoast but I don’t have this on my site and leaves me wondering what wordpress is up to.

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