Title: [Plugin: Authors Widget] Patch for performance problems on multisite installations.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Authors Widget] Patch for performance problems on multisite installations.

 *  [Adam Franco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamfranco/)
 * (@adamfranco)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-authors-widget-patch-for-performance-problems-on-multisite-installations/)
 * We run a large multi-site WordPress installation with several hundred blogs and
   about 5,000 users. We were noticing serious performance problems with the authors
   widget and upon investigation found that the authors widget was selecting every
   single one of our 5,000 users, loading all of their information, then only printing
   out those that had posts on the current blog.
 * I’ve written a fix which instead just fetches users that have posts on the current
   blog, rather than all users. This fix drops the rendering time for the authors
   widget on our site from 45 seconds to several hundred milliseconds.
 * Patch:
    [authors_widget-get_authors.patch](http://www2.adamfranco.com/dropbox/authors_widget-get_authors.patch)
 * Zipped widget with the patch applied:
    [authors-get_authors.zip](http://www2.adamfranco.com/dropbox/authors-get_authors.zip)
 * I’d be happy to submit this patch somewhere, but couldn’t find any issue tracker
   or other place to submit patches for this widget.
 * Adam
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/authors/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/authors/)

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 * Last reply from: [Adam Franco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamfranco/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-authors-widget-patch-for-performance-problems-on-multisite-installations/)
 * Status: not resolved