I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for decreasing the amount of queries ACF calls.
Right now ACF calls 70 queries on my site and that seems a little high to me. I am using the:
get_post_meta($post->ID) function to pull all the data. However this does not include anything from within the options table that I need to pull.
The two callers that seem to give me the most issue are:
get_option() and update_meta_cache()
Is there a way I can call all options variables like I can with get_post_meta?
Hi @rameden
Is there a reason you’re not using the ACF functions for this?
get_field('field_name') to get a post/page specific meta field, or get_field('field_name', 'option') to get a site options meta field.
Hi @markbloomfield,
The reason I am not using get_field('fieldname'); is due to the amount of custom fields I am using. I do not want to use a DB every time I need to display the field. Using get_post_meta($post->ID); allows to me to only call the data once.
Understand @rameden
To answer your question directly, get_post_meta does just that: it fetches *post* meta.
The equivalent of this function for WordPress *options* data, is wp_load_alloptions which you can read more about here.
Hope this helps 🙂
I didn’t even know wp_load_alloptions was a thing! That is awesome!
@rameden learnt about it today too 🙂
If this solves your problem, you can click on the ‘solved’ button for that answer, that’d be great 🙂
Good luck!
Running a few tests now but I will for sure! Thanks again!
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Figured it out. When you initially setup your ACF options is defaults autoload to false. If you set it to true they will then show up.
