[Feature Request] Add a way to disable ajax calls on post edit pages

[priscillamc]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

User notices slow performance editing posts with shortcodes and avoid disabling the Yoast metabox on the post edit page.

Describe the solution you'd like

The user would like to be able to disable the call to the wpseo_filter_shortcodes action.

why you think the feature request is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

This could possibly be a workaround for other issues when users don't want to disable page analysis, etc. for the entire site. See issue #5942 and issue #5393

Additional context

[Globerada]

I hope this info helps. I have looking for a solution several weeks, because I didn't know what was happening.

I had a custom short code which loads a ton of lines into the post via:

      ob_start();	 
      include_once($file_to_include);
      $content = ob_get_contents();		
      ob_end_clean();	

This was slowing down the editor as @priscillamc stated. What I have done is to edit the function which register the shortcode to return an empty string if is a the post data from WP SEO does is present.

  $shortcodes = filter_input( INPUT_POST, 'data', FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_REQUIRE_ARRAY ); 
  
  foreach ( $shortcodes as $shortcode ) { 
      if (stripos($shortcode, 'trx_title') !== false) {
        return '';
      }
  }  

[Pcosta88]

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[suascat]

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[suascat]

The user from the above ticket mentioned the slowness on the edit page is caused when Yoast SEO Local is activated.

For whatever reason, whenever navigating to just about any page in wp-admin, admin-ajax was making tons of calls with the wpseo_filter_shortcodes action when, and only when, Yoast Local was activated, resulting in 502s. Either deactivating Yoast Local or, or temporary fix of completely turning off the heartbeat on the post editor and the backend plus adding add_filter('wp_ajax_wpseo_filter_shortcodes', '__return_false', 10, 2); to the functions.php file stopped this behavior. This intense admin-ajax behavior would only happen when Yoast Local was activated.

[shabnam611]

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