We have a rather large Woocommerce site with some 21,000 products, of which most are components of bundles or composite products. Therefore only 1800 live products.
To Reproduce
Step-by-step reproduction instructions
Have a large complex WooCommerce setup with Yoast SEO
Go to Admin > Products > Categories
Edit a child category where the parent category has over 1000 assigned products
Scroll to Yoast meta box
Type a new SEO title or meta description
Experience slowness
Complex WooCommerce setup
Create at least 3000 products
Create at least 1500 product categories of various depths (parent, child, or further)
Assign a parent category to at least 1000 products
Assign a child category of the above parent category to at least 5 products
Assign at least 2 products to both the parent and child category.
Please give us a description of what happened
The issue is similar to https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/19165 but occurs when editing a product category.
To Reproduce
Step-by-step reproduction instructions
Complex WooCommerce setup Create at least 3000 products Create at least 1500 product categories of various depths (parent, child, or further) Assign a parent category to at least 1000 products Assign a child category of the above parent category to at least 5 products Assign at least 2 products to both the parent and child category.
Expected results
Normal edit times
Actual results
Slow to edit
Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet
Screen recordings of the issue in ticket 1134458.
Technical info
Used versions