Performance: 30-120s (10,000+ stat calls) → <1s (200-400 stat calls)
Changes:
- Replaced get_wp_search_paths() to use targeted shell globs instead of recursive find
- Globs check ONLY known wp-config.php positions (docroot + 1 level deep)
- No filesystem recursion - direct stat checks on specific paths
- Covers all control panels: cPanel (main + addon domains), Plesk, InterWorx, standalone
- Replaced | head -1000 pipe with inline counter (eliminates subprocess + SIGPIPE)
- Added progress feedback messages to initialize_wp_cache() (&2 to stderr)
- Added site count reporting after cache build completes
Why this works:
- WordPress almost always lives at docroot or one level deep in subdirectory
- cPanel addon domains are exactly one level deep (/home/user/public_html/addon/)
- Glob expansion generates O(N) stat calls where N = directories to check
- find with recursion generates O(F) stat calls where F = all files under tree
- Improvement especially dramatic on servers with 100+ accounts
Backwards compatible:
- Returns same format (one wp-config.php path per line)
- Maintains 1000-file limit
- All control panel types supported
- Cache TTL unchanged (1 hour)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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