get_users() cause memory problems

  • Resolved yudge

    (@yudge)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    On the free version in shortcode-builder.php, you are fetching the authors by using get_users(). This fetches all the users along with all the metadata. For a wp_usermeta table with 1 million rows, I had to allow 1 GB of memory limit for the code to execute in like 30 seconds. Please do not fetch data like that. You guys can use a search box feature like WooCommerce does, in which you will get dynamic search results as uses type in the search criteria.

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  • Plugin Author Darren Cooney

    (@dcooney)

    Hi @yudge,
    On the Easy Query settings page… check the “Disable dynamic population of categories, tags and authors in the Query Builder.” checkbox to disable this feature.

    Cheers,

    Thread Starter yudge

    (@yudge)

    Thanks for the prompt reply. Hmm, yes that’d fix the issue; however, it does take away the feature. Also I think it’d be beneficial if you guys highlight this option on the settings page and explain a bit about it or even default to “Disable”, since at first glance I think very few would see the option there and most would just switch to another plugin when encountering this problem.

    And it seems somehow your plugin silences the error. I had to step through the code using debugger and locate the issue. When I called get_users() in my own code, I got the php memory error displayed.

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