"Choose a post to assign" searchbar Ajax crash :(

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Last updated by Andrey 1 day, 6 hours ago.

Assisted by: Andrey.

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February 18, 2025 at 4:02 pm #16719986
vyacheslavB-2	Background of the issue: I'm trying to assign one page to another as a translation using WPML. I pressed the button 'Connect with translations' and there is a popup with a search bar with ID 'post_search' and class 'ui-autocomplete-input'. Symptoms: When I started typing the title of some page, Ajax starts to find these posts, but I have around 32000 posts in one of the versions, causing a super long timeout and my page crashes. Questions: Can I use something like at least 3 or 5 characters to input to start the Ajax searching? Is there a part of code to be inserted into functions.php to solve this issue?
February 20, 2025 at 12:45 am #16727095
Mihai Apetrei Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+02:00)	Hello, It appears this will require some custom work, which is outside the scope of our Support Policy. However, I will check with our developers to see if I can at least guide you in the right direction. After that, you can consider hiring a developer or a WPML contractor (https://wpml.org/contractors/). I'm not certain if there's a no-coding alternative available, but I will look into it. For now, I will keep the ticket assigned to myself until I have more information.
February 20, 2025 at 3:26 pm #16730515
vyacheslavB-2	Ok, great. Maybe I will find some solution by myself, I will keep you informed. p.s. But that's really a problem. Maybe you should fix that at next versions.
February 20, 2025 at 3:41 pm #16730599
Andrey Supporter Languages: English (English ) Russian (Русский ) Timezone: Europe/Kyiv (GMT+02:00)	Thank you for your feedback. As Mihai mentioned, no settings are currently available to change this behavior. Please provide an example so I can share it with our development team. The following reply will be private.