

Get in touch

Download Plugin Now
  • Follow
  • Follow
WP Data Access
  • Download
  • Support
  • Features
  • Pricing
  • Documentation
    • Tool Guide
    • App Builder
    • Data Explorer
    • SQL Query Builder
    • Plugin Settings
    • Legacy Tools
    • Remote Connections
a
M
  • Download
  • Support
  • Features
  • Pricing
  • Documentation
    • Tool Guide
    • App Builder
    • Data Explorer
    • SQL Query Builder
    • Plugin Settings
    • Legacy Tools
    • Remote Connections
Download Plugin Now

Legacy Tools

  • Deprecating in the near future

Tables

  • Getting Started
  • Creating and publishing
  • Responsive data tables
  • SEO friendly data tables
  • Adding hyperlinks
  • Extension Manager
  • Style Manager
  • Language settings
  • Styling
    • Style Manager
    • Premium styling
    • Global styling
    • Code Manager Styling
    • Manual styling
    • Styling issues
  • Filters
    • Static filters
    • Interactive filters
      • URL parameters
      • Search Panes
      • Search Builder
      • Search form
      • Advanced search
      • Geolocation search
  • Export & other buttons
    • Export to PDF, CSV, Excel, SQL
    • Print & copy buttons
    • Column selection buttons
    • Custom buttons
  • Advanced features
    • Advanced settings
    • Large tables & performance
    • Progressively SHOW MORE
    • Custom queries
    • Custom Post Types
    • Row grouping
    • Responsive master-detail
    • Master-detail tables
    • Non admin user access
  • Demos & tutorials
    • Demos
    • Tutorials

Forms

  • Data Projects
  • Projects and templates
  • Supported Data Types
  • One-To-Many relationships
  • Many-To-Many relationships
  • Registration page
  • Manage table options
  • Shortcode usage
  • Data Forms
    • Data Forms
    • Overview
    • Project Demo
    • Page Demo
  • Advanced features
    • Adding filters
    • Custom validation
    • Add less/more button
    • User roles
    • Managing roles and users
    • Advanced table options
    • Advanced lookups
    • Front-end toolbar
    • Transfer to other WP site
  • Demos & tutorials
    • Demos
    • Tutorials

Templates

  • Project Templates
  • Creating templates
  • Table Settings
  • Relationships
  • List Table
  • Data Entry
  • Reconcile

Designer

  • Getting started
  • Introduction
  • Basic mode

Dashboards

  • Getting started
  • Dashboards
  • Sharing dashboards
  • Dashboards Widgets
    • Dashboard Widgets
    • Publication Widget
    • Project Widget
    • Chart Widget
    • Custom Code Widget
    • Database Widget
    • Sharing Widgets

Charts

  • Chart Widget

Code

  • Shortcodes
    • Overview
    • wpdataaccess
    • wpdadataproject
    • wpdadataforms
    • wpdadiehard
    • wpdageomap
    • wpdawidget
  • Plugin Variables
    • Environment variables
  • Hooks & filters
    • Overview
    • Hooks
      • Overview
      • wpda_add_search_actions
      • wpda_add_search_filter
      • wpda_before_list_table
      • wpda_after_list_table
      • wpda_wpdataaccess_prepare
    • Filters
      • Overview
      • wpda_column_default
      • wpda_before_simple_form
      • wpda_after_simple_form
      • wpda_construct_where_clause
  • API
    • WP Data Access API
    • Remote database access
    • CRUD Example
    • Extensions
      • Alternative search algorithm
      • Alternative buttons extension
  • Code Manager
    • Overview
    • Write code
    • Share(d) code
View Categories

Large tables & performance

Three ways to improve performance! There are more…
  • Skip estimated row counts
  • Force user to press ENTER on new search
  • Progressively SHOW MORE button

Skip estimated row counts #

Tables are using pagination by default. Although pagination improves the user experience, it slows down performance, especially for large tables. Pagination requires counting:
  1. All table rows
  2. All matching table rows

These counts consume resources and may slow down performance.

A row count estimate can be used to prevent row counts on every page view. Calculated and hard estimates can be defined for InnoDB tables, federated tables and views in the Data Explorer. The following summary information is shown for tables having the estimated row count enabled.
Without a filter:
~Showing 1 to 10 of 12,565,527 entries

With a filter:

~Showing 1 to 10 of 7017 entries (filtered from 12,565,527 total entries)

The estimated row count feature only eliminates the first row count mentioned earlier. The second row count (with filter) is still needed to show the number of entries (see information summary above). Unfortunately, this is mostly the most resource consuming query of all.

Data Tables supports option wpda_use_estimates_only to prevent this query as well. This option elimates the second large table horror count at the cost of incomplete summary information. As a result, queries on a table containing > 12.5 millions rows are lightning fast, even with a filter. But the summary information always shows:

~Showing 1 to 10 of 12,565,527 entries

And does not contain the number of rows filtered.

The following advance table setting will force the plugin to use only estimates

{ "wpda_use_estimates_only": true }

Force user to press ENTER on new search #

A search box is added to each data table by default. To prevent sending a request on every key pressed, the user needs to press the enter key explicitly. This is the default behavior since version 5.1.2 and helps to reduce network traffic and boost performance. The wpda_search_force_enter  option can be used the change this behavior. If set to false a request is send on each key pressed. Do not change this behavior for large tables!

Progressively SHOW MORE button #

The SHOW MORE button completely disables pagination. This also elimates the two earlier mentioned count statements, and can therefor be regarded as an alternative for the estimated row count feature, especially with large tables. The SHOW MORE button feature is part of the free version.

  • Read more about the progressively SHOW MORE button
Share This Article :
  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
Still stuck? How can we help?

How can we help?

Updated on 2025-02-13
Advanced settingsProgressively SHOW MORE

Submit a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Table of Contents
  • Skip estimated row counts
  • Force user to press ENTER on new search
  • Progressively SHOW MORE button
WP Data Access
  • Follow
  • Follow
Links
$

Imprint

$

Privacy policy

$

Cookie policy

Get in touch
$

Contact us

$

Free support forum

$

Premium support

Resources


WordPress plugin directory



YouTube tutorials

Copyright © 2025 | All Right Reserves

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}