Background Manager Light Version

  • Background manager is a great plugin but i thnk it has so many sql query and js , css queries. So it makes web sites slower. i tested it many times. i just use background manager to add link to my background image. And im sure many users use this plugin for like me. Light version of background manager would be better.

    im sorry for my english. I hope u understand me ??

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  • Yeah I’m gonna have to agree with this. I have a photo presentation running on a Sony smart TV using this plugin but I’ve had to remove all transition effects because the plugin is just to heavy for the machine to display.

    Would be nice to have a lite, alternative version of this plugin

    With browser detectors cant you disable plugins scripts etc.? There is no kill switch I assume but simply turning off script should have same effect. Would be useful if WordPress had a wp_is_mobile() or similar function build in. It has but a tiny one. Cant be smart that random plugins, and themes, each start to add own detectors, better with a central one. There seems to be a lot of them so what to use?

    Actually I find Background Manager to be faster than others I have tried. Just smoother. If you tune images, some abstract gradient stuff can work with quite small images, it seems ok to me. Does seem to add a good chunk of mysql queries though. CPU usage probably also go up with effects, may be proportional with no. of pixels plugin has to work on. If someone know a perfect “light” setup a post would be cool. ??

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    The main slow-down with Background Manager is the transition effects, which are CPU intensive. With the introduction of the CSS3 transitions in 1.1, the CPU usage has been reduced as most browsers will take advantage of hardware acceleration.

    The database is the next bottleneck, and I have made attempts to reduce the amount of queries and implement caching as much as possible. The plugin will automatically take advantage of PHP APC if it is available, so this might help if you’re experiencing issues with database speeds. A memory-based database cache would be ideal though, such as the use of Memcache.

    Nevertheless, I’ll continue to make improvements to its responsiveness.

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