Improve your WordPress-Website speed by adding an index to the autoload field of your WordPress database.
As of April 2026, Add Index To Autoload is a WordPress database plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Search Regex.
You don’t need this plugin if you run WP >= 5.3
This tool will speed up your database queries by adding an index to the “autoload” field.
With this index the query time for the autoload option will not increase with growing table size.
Therefore it helps speeding things up – especially with big option-tables.
This plugin offers four options:
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.