Have some negative reviews been addressed?

  • eftcolumbus

    (@eftcolumbus)


    3 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hi, I’m wanting to install this but saw some negative reviews that i think are related, but I can’t tell if they were fixed in recent versions, here they are:

    July 31, 2025
    I wonder how on earth a plugin tha promises to optimize the wp_options tables, stores 25MB of data in the option_value !!!! Maybe the guy who developed it does not understand the fundamentals of the internal database optimizers but such a huge deviation, totally ruins MariaDBs/MySQL internal optimizer. You see optimizers work on the assumption that in a table, the fields have somewhat related sizes. For more details please go to MariaDB Jira and check for cases MDEV-34097 and MDEV 32663If you add records with huge sizes (say > 100k) in wp_options table where each option is usually less than 30Bytes, then you have an issue. In our case the issue was caused by the very plugin that we used to monitor our options (that are by and large incorrect). Avoid it at all costs.

    AND

    June 13, 2025

    Installed it some times ago, worked well. Since some days generate a huge log saturating my server space disk (millions of lines …). Had to deactivate it.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Taco Verdonschot

    (@tacoverdo)

    3 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hey @eftcolumbus,

    Thanks for asking! The answer is slightly more complicated than a simple yes or no. So please stay with me for a bit.

    Yes, AAA Option Optimizer will store data in an option_value in the wp_options table. However, that data is _not_ autoloaded, and is only used on our own plugin page. Also, the 25MB mentioned in that review is quite an extreme case. You’ll need to have a very large website for that to happen!

    And since we’re all about optimizing your options, we’ll remove our options when you delete the plugin from WordPress.

    The good news is that AAA Option Optimizer isn’t creating any log files. So if it fills logs, it means that either you have a logging plugin that catches something, or it’s the PHP error log that catches an error. In both cases, we’d love to hear that from you so we can take appropriate action!

    If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. And when you do try the plugin, please let us know how you feel about it. We’d love to get your feedback!

    Thanks,
    Taco

    Thread Starter eftcolumbus

    (@eftcolumbus)

    3 months, 4 weeks ago

    Thank you Taco, that makes sense, I’ll give it a go for a week as indicated, update autoloaded, and uninstall.

    Plugin Author Taco Verdonschot

    (@tacoverdo)

    3 months, 3 weeks ago

    Can’t wait to hear your feedback!

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