Storing usermeta inside custom table

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January 15, 2022 at 10:40 PM #33256

Nicholas Cox
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Hi

I have been lookign through my database structure and I use custom tables for post types etc and all of the tables are tidy except the usermeta table. Now I know the usermeta is required but is there a way to take all of the meta and put them in one row in a custom table? e.g. admin_color

so to change all rows of meta to be stored into one row in a custom table.

e.g.
ID | nickname | first_name | last_name | description | rich_editing | ........
1 | example | Alex | Yeates | test | true | ........

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January 16, 2022 at 8:43 PM #33266

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

Is there a way to take all of the meta and put them in one row in a custom table?

It is possible to save all user meta to the custom table, but you have to create many codes/functions to return the value for the WordPress functions when a theme or another plugin retrieves the user meta. So I do not see the benefit when you save the default user meta to the custom table.

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January 17, 2022 at 6:35 AM #33273

Nicholas Cox
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Hi,

yes that's correct. I wanted to do this as my website will have up to 10,000 users and the table will grow quickly. So I wanted to combine them to reduce the number of rows inside user table. Metabox main focus is to reduce the number of table rows inside posts, so I thought that there might be some optimisation for the user table too. Seems like it can grow and become bloated very quickly. To have e.g. 20 rows for 1 user is very excessive.

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