Enigma theme slowness, even after index.php fix

Hi,

Sorry for inconveniences.

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Jeremydeprisco.com

Hi,

Please deactivate all your plugins one by one and check it.

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Ran through each plugin, deactivating. While I found a couple out of date plugins that were not necessarily compatible with the latest WP version, nothing improved when they were removed.

I also optimized my database, from the WP control panel, but aw no improvement.

Hi,

Please make Child-Theme and create home-blog.php in child theme directory.

Now copy code from LINK and paste to home-blog.php

Save the changes.

Thanks.

Thanks. This really didn’t help, and actually really destroyed a lot of work I put into the look and feel of things. I’ve worked with child themes before, and this was pretty messy and looked like everything would have to be redone, which I didn’t want to do. You didn’t specify anything for the functions.php so I left that blank. Still not a good experience.

The problem seems to be in three places:

1. The top menu redraw time
2. The slider response time
3. The latest blog post response time (can this be limited to 5-10)?

Even once the site finally loads, it can sometimes get hung up as you scroll down through the site and hit the latest posts section. All of that animation is cool, but it seems to be too much overhead for the average device. I have been working on Chrome/FF on PC, Safari on iPad 8.2, Android phone, and Macbook (Mavericks).

Currently testing out w3-total-cache, but it is a bit more complex than what I was going for here. My host has recommended ‘wp-super-cache’, so maybe I’ll try that later. If you have any other ideas, let me know.

Hi,

Please find this line in home-blog.php in child theme directory

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'post','ignore_sticky_posts' => 1);

and replace this line with the below line

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'post','ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,'posts_per_page' =>5);

Save the changes.

Thanks.

OK, but once again… the child theme totally wrecked a lot of work I previously did. So for now I am using your suggestion plugged into the main theme (not child). I am not really seeing much difference.

The process of activating a Child Theme is just like the process of activating a new theme, if that helps explain why it appeared you lost work.

If you’re directly editing the parent theme then you can no longer receive theme updates. Unless you’re okay with your changes being wiped.

FYI – on iPad I get a message:

“A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded”

iPad model MC706LL/A
OS 8.2 (12D508)

Yes, I understand that (re: child themes). I’m just saying that I can’t loose any more time getting this site up. And I *could* do theme updates, I just need to track any changes. Seems to me that an enhancement to improve responsiveness should be in the core theme anyway, and not require me to use a child theme.

Update:

Yesterday my wife’s Win 7 machine seemed to load the site well (FF), but I noticed an Add This plugin loading a bit slow. So I disabled it. Then my caching plugin recommended I do some cleanup afterward, and for extra measure I cleared my Chrome browser cache on my main test PC (Win 8).

The site is working better now than it has before. Even on Android and iPad it is loading respectably fast.

So – lots of variables – but thanks for your help.

Hi,

Is your issue resolved?

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I think so. I am going to monitor tis change, and I see the theme just got an update so if I have issues after, I will put it back in. Thanks!

I am also finding the loading of my site based on Enigma (using child theme) to be very sluggish. I’m looking at the page source/resources and see that it seems like a lot of loading of web fonts that may not even be used in the theme (like Raleway and Courgette, etc.).
I don’t have many plug-ins at all and only one post. I really think I’d like to remove all the unneeded webfont loading…
(The site is https://www.bowls.ab.ca )