Over months of development, your core database swells with thousands of legacy post revisions, deleted trash logs, spam comments, and transient option strings left behind by uninstalled plugins. This overhead delays SQL query request handling times.
Reducing Post Revisions via wp-config.php
WordPress keeps an infinite record of every block change you make. You can easily clamp this down to maintain space efficiency by introducing a hard restriction cap directly within your site configurations:
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5);
