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Large autoload footprint from BEAR

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nimaghaziii(@nimaghaziii)
2 Posts
Customers
November 11, 2025, 19:27

I’m optimizing a WooCommerce site that uses BEAR (WOOBE) and noticed a pretty big autoload footprint in wp_options coming from the plugin — roughly ~0.5 MB. Most of it looks like UI stuff: profiles/options, e.g.

  • woobe_options_*

  • woobe_profiles_*

  • woobe_shop_manager_visibility

  • other BEAR-related arrays

I’d like to keep total autoload under 1MB, so I’m planning to set these to autoload = no so they only load on BEAR admin screens.

Questions:

  1. Is it safe to switch these BEAR options to autoload = no? (Assuming they’re just for the BEAR admin UI and not needed on the front end.)

  2. Does BEAR (or an update/migration) ever flip them back to autoload=yes or recreate them with autoload on? If yes, any hook/setting to stop that so the change sticks?

Thanks!

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Alex Dovlatov(@alexdev)
369 Posts
November 12, 2025, 13:23

Hello

Thank you for bringing this optimization issue to our attention.

Will BEAR flip them back to autoload = yes - unfortunately, yes (for this current moment) - this is the main issue. When BEAR updates these options (for example, when you save settings or profiles), it will likely reset them back to autoload = yes. This is standard behavior for most plugins using update_option().

I think you can do it without problem as BEAR need only when you using it on admin panel. Here is the screen https://share.pluginus.net/image/i20251112130403.png where function update_option used inside the plugin - you can set false there where its not applied and do tests - all should work.

We just did tests and all works fine.

You can do next:

  1. open phpmyadmin
  2. do query to see all options:
    UPDATE wp_options
    SET autoload = 'off'
    WHERE option_name LIKE 'woobe_%'
    AND option_name != 'woobe_version'
    AND autoload != 'off';
  3. do query to set 'off' for autoload
    SELECT option_name, LENGTH(option_value) as size, autoload
    FROM wp_options
    WHERE option_name LIKE 'woobe_%'
    ORDER BY size DESC;
  4. make changes in the plugin code for all functions update_option, we did it for the next update already in the plugin code
  5. Test it. On ourr side it works as it been

Welcome!

 

 

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