{"id":946,"date":"2018-03-04T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=946"},"modified":"2024-10-16T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T09:44:24","slug":"disable-limit-wordpress-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/disable-limit-wordpress-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable or to Limit WordPress Heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress Heartbeat<\/strong> API is a simple server polling API built into WordPress, allowing near-real-time frontend updates.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<\/strong>API\u00a0 is using the admin-ajax.php<\/strong> file to make AJAX calls. If you notice a significant amount of POST requests to that file, this means that you need to limit\u00a0WordPress Heartbeat frequency or to completely disable it.<\/p>\n

Sending excessive requests to\u00a0admin-ajax.php<\/strong>\u00a0can lead to high CPU usage.<\/p>\n

How to disable\u00a0WordPress Heartbeat<\/h2>\n

To completely disable it, go to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme and paste these lines right after the opening <?php tag:<\/p>\n

add_action( 'init', 'stop_heartbeat', 1 );
\nfunction stop_heartbeat() {
\nwp_deregister_script('heartbeat');
\n}<\/code><\/p>\n

This will completely disable\u00a0this functionality and it will be no longer added to the total number of executions and CPU time used by your website.<\/p>\n

How to limit\u00a0 WordPress Heartbeat<\/h2>\n

In case you don’t want to disable it completely, you can simply limit its execution frequency. You can do this by using a plugin called Heartbeat\u00a0<\/strong>Control.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Once you have installed the plugin you can decrease the Heartbeat frequency to 60 seconds or above. It is recommended to set Heartbeat locations to “Allow only on post edit pages”.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a wrap!<\/h2>\n

You now know how to completely disable or to limit\u00a0WordPress Heartbeat.<\/p>\n \t\t

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