by Oliver Jones
5 (4 reviews)
Index WP Users For Speed
Do you have thousands of users on your WordPress site? Look them up fast. Find authors more easily. Speed up your laggy dashboard.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v1.2.0
Current Version v1.2.0
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 17 Nov, 2025
Refreshed 13 hours ago
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- Version
- 1.2.0
- Last Updated
- Nov 17, 2025
- Requires WP
- 5.2+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 5.6 or higher
- Author
- Oliver Jones
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Index WP Users For Speed
Yes. Backups are good practice. Still, this plugin makes no changes to your site or database layout. It adds a few non-autoloaded options, and adds rows to wp_usermeta.
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Yes. Indexing your registered users requires us to insert a row in your wp_usermeta tab;e for each of them. We do this work in batches of 5000 users to avoid locking up your MariaDB / MySQL server. Each batch takes server time. Once all index building or refresh batches are complete, your CPU usage will return to normal.
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Plugins like Vladimir Garagulya's User Role Editor let you assign multiple roles to users. This plugin handles those users correctly.
Standard WordPress puts a wp_capabilities row in the wp_usermeta table for each user. Its meta_value contains a small data structure. For example, an author has this data structure. array("author") In order to find all the authors WordPress must issue a database query containing a filter like this one, that starts and ends with the SQL wildcard character %. meta_key = 'wp_capabilities' AND meta_value LIKE '%"author"%' Filters like that are notoriously slow: they cannot exploit any database keys, and so MySQL or MariaDB must examine that wp_usermeta row for every user in your site. This plugin adds rows to wp_usermeta describing each user's role (or roles) in a way that's easier to search. To find authors, the plugin uses this much faster filter instead. meta_key = 'wp_index_wp_users_for_speed_role_author' It takes a while to insert these extra indexing rows into the database; that happens with WP_Cron tasks in the background. Once the indexing rows are in place, you can add, delete, or change user roles without regenerating those rows: the plugin maintains them.
It performs the indexing for batches of users, each in a separate WP_Cron task. The number of users in a batch defaults to 5000 and can be set, if need be, with the INDEX_WP_USERS_FOR_SPEED_BATCHSIZE variable in wp-config.php. It breaks each batch into chunks of 50 users, by default. That can be set with the INDEX_WP_USERS_FOR_SPEED_CHUNKSIZE variable in wp-config.php.
WordPress's trac (defect-tracking) system has this ticket # 38741.
Three reasons (maybe four): to save carbon footprint. to save carbon footprint. to save carbon footprint. to save people time. Seriously, the microwatt hours of electricity saved by faster web site technologies add up fast, especially at WordPress's global scale.