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I have some data saved as post meta, occasionally some plugins may save an extra piece. Now I installed bbpress, it saves at least 10 pieces of post meta. Adding them together, there are nearly 35 pieces of post meta per post. I think WordPress can handle much more if without bbpress.

With bbpress forum, the number of posts will increase dramatically, multiply by the number of post meta, it will be a huge post meta table. Will it be a problem?

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That depends more on server performance than WordPress itself... – Johannes Pille Aug 17 '12 at 5:21
so, if not want moving to new server at a future stage, better reduce postmeta per post at the very beginning, right? – Jenny Aug 17 '12 at 5:43
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try saving serialized data where possible. – Sisir Aug 17 '12 at 8:32

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No, to be honest 35 is nothing. You should not see any problems scaling this into the hundreds/thousands if optimized right, it does depend on many factors.

Where is the post meta being used, are you sure it's all being used?

Are you using a lot of unique keys? You can check this by doing get_post_custom_keys, the lower the better.

Are you outputting all post meta in one shot using get_post_custom instead of getting each field via get_post_meta ?

You should always turn on debugging with define('SAVEQUERIES', true); and see how many hits to the DB your doing and how long each one is taking.

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All data I created are used frequently, votes, flags...and so on. Not sure about bbpress. As for the unique key, I tried get_post_custom_keys, all bbpress custom keys not showing up, they all start with "_", I know that makes it hidden from UI, you mean, it also have other benefits? – Jenny Aug 17 '12 at 6:59
No that's it, "_" hides it. Just look at the debug output it should tell you what you need to know in terms of the speed of a query. – Wyck Aug 17 '12 at 16:56

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