https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/performance-issue-with-wp_dropdown_users Gravity Support Forums Topic: Performance Issue with wp_dropdown_users() en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:29:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/performance-issue-with-wp_dropdown_users#post-21980 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:39:06 +0000 Carl Hancock 21980@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This is an issue that does occur on sites with a very large number of users because by default the Author drop down on the Post Title and Post Body fields lists all users. We created the gform_author_drop_args hook specifically for situations like this. </p> <p>I'm not sure if you found it in the documentation, but it is located here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_author_dropdown_args" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_author_dropdown_args</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/performance-issue-with-wp_dropdown_users#post-21977 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:34:43 +0000 Aaron Forgue 21977@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Alright, the filter worked nicely. Here is what I did:<br /> <pre><code>function inet_limit_author_dropdown($args) { $args[&#39;who&#39;] = &#39;authors&#39;; return $args; } add_filter(&#39;gform_author_dropdown_args&#39;, &#39;inet_limit_author_dropdown&#39;);</code></pre> <p>This limits the the drop down to only "authors" instead of all users. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/performance-issue-with-wp_dropdown_users#post-21976 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:24:41 +0000 Aaron Forgue 21976@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Actually, now that I look closer we might be able to hook into the filter set up right before that and narrow down the search somehow. I'll try that and report back </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/performance-issue-with-wp_dropdown_users#post-21975 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:22:23 +0000 Aaron Forgue 21975@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just a heads up: Our site has over 600,000 users in Wordpress. When creating a new form in GF, the form_detail.php makes use of the wp_dropdown_users() function to populate the 'Default Post Author' field. As a result, it attempts to load all 600+k users into the field.</p> <p>This causes a massive load time and occasionally the page just craps out and won't load at all. When I commented out the use of wp_dropdown_users() in form_detail.php, everything loaded fine.</p> <p>This temporary solution will hold us over, but it'd be great if you could take this issue into consideration in future releases.</p> <p>Thanks!<br /> Aaron </p>