Featured post slider incredibly slow

  • Been running Mesocolumn for a while now and in the main very pleased.

    Discovered the slow loading of the feature slider is putting people off, it takes around 5 to 6 seconds or more to load the slider. This must be penalising me with google load algorithms?

    Occurs wth any browser, have latest versions of wordpress/plugins installed…..
    url is beekblog.co.uk

    Any help appreciated.
    If I cannot solve this I’ll need to find an alternative theme.

    Many thanks.

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  • Theme Author Richie KS

    (@rkcorp)

    depend on how many slider posts you set. and if no featured image is set on post, it will grab first image in post, that might be full large version so it will slow down.

    also i see you using jetpack/wp image host, don’t think the slider support this. not sure tho, it didn’t load in you site. i think it related to parameter in image url link, try alternative slider plugin and add them into the same position.

    disable slider first and add something like this to functions.php

    function meso_custom_featured_slider() {
if('page' == get_option( 'show_on_front' )) {
$paged = get_query_var( 'page' );
} else {
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' );
}
if( ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) {
if ( !$paged ) {
echo YOUR_PLUGIN_SLIDER_PLUGIN_FUNCTION or shortcode;
}
}
}
add_action('bp_before_blog_entry','meso_custom_featured_slider');
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