https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/too-many-users-author-dropdown-timing-out-and-crashing Gravity Support Forums Topic: Too many Users - Author dropdown timing out and crashing en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:33:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/too-many-users-author-dropdown-timing-out-and-crashing#post-41693 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:53:46 +0000 Rob Harrell 41693@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Glad you got it worked out, thanks for letting us know. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/too-many-users-author-dropdown-timing-out-and-crashing#post-41692 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:44:45 +0000 Jackie 41692@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just answered my own question</p> <blockquote> <p> //Allows manipulation of the arguments that are used to create the user drop down (by the wp_dropdown_users function)</p> <p> //Visit <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_users" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_users</a> for a more details on the available options</p> <p> add_filter("gform_author_dropdown_args", set_users);</p> <p> function set_users($args){</p> <p> //only include user with id=1</p> <p> $args["include"] = 1;</p> <p> return $args;</p> <p> }</p> </blockquote> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/too-many-users-author-dropdown-timing-out-and-crashing#post-41687 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:34:10 +0000 Jackie 41687@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>For example, in the advanced settings for "Post Title"<br /> Default Post Author will attempt to create a dropdown of all users in the database.<br /> Our website has 380K+ users so this is a problem as the script tries to load all 380K+ author names into the dropdown, which ultimately either timesout, or crashes the browser with JQuery errors.</p> <p>Is there a workaround we can use?<br /> For the future.. Ideally, having a auto-complete there would be best and not use a dropdown at all. </p>