Do you have thousands of users on your WordPress site? Look them up fast. Find authors more easily. Speed up your laggy dashboard.
As of April 2026, Index WP Users For Speed is a WordPress index plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Downloads are down 29% this week. Top alternative: Index WP MySQL For Speed.
This plugin speeds up the handling of your WordPress registered users, especially when your site has many thousands of them. (Congratulations! Building a successful site with thousands of users is an accomplishment.) With optimized MySQL / MariaDB database techniques, it finds and displays your users more quickly. Your All Users panel on your dashboard displays faster and searches faster. Your All Posts and All Pages panels no longer lag when displaying. And, you can edit your posts to change authorship more efficiently.
Without this plugin WordPress sites with many users slow down drastically on Dashboard pages. It can take many seconds each time you display your Users dashboard panel. It takes just about the same large amount of time to display your Posts or Pages panels. While those…
Must have for large user database!
It’s great to see a plugin like this created and maintained to such a high standard. Thank you Ollie
Really Fantastic. Thanks for this!
This is absolutely amazing work. I’ve reviewed your discussions on WP issue tracker and various other places and came to the same conclusion. While I had already added some of my own custom indexes long ago, this is even better. Fantastic job!
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Handle non-consecutive wp_user.ID values with large gaps.
Control of batch and chunk size is possible in wp-config.php.
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