huge plugin

Wow, it is hitting 60% on mine ??

That’s not good! Do you know if it’s PHP or Database access?

It shouldn’t be heavy load at all, since the requests are cached and the templates are rendered using the Twig framework, which is well-tested.

Zack:

Thx for getting back. I don’t know if it’s PHP or Database access I’m afraid.

It is running big so if there is a way to make it smaller it would be greatly appreciated. I don’t think I can run it much longer as is because I’m expecting huge usage of my (bulldogottawa.com) site in the coming weeks.

thx for your help

kgray

It’s hitting 50% on mine, and takes up more time than the wp core itself, and almost twice as much time as jetpack. something’s gone awry with this new version. please fix. It’s also causing the IE11 browser screen to flash white between page loads, due to the delay it’s causing. please, please fix….

mharpen:

P3 showed the plugin was taking up 60 per cent of the time to load last night.

I have 21 plugins including the large Jetpack.

Will this plugin be changed or fixed anytime soon because I run a news site and I can’t afford to have it go down because of a weather plugin.

Love the new plugin, still running it but the developer must make it smaller soon. I’ve got a municipal election coming up in Ottawa, my site is on municipal politics and I’m afraid I might lose the site on election day Oct. 27. That wouldn’t be good.

Can the developer fill us in on this perhaps?

Ken Gray

bulldogottawa.com

Sorry, but one further point.

I see the developer has posted earlier.

I know the plugin shouldn’t be doing that, but it is. Other people are reporting it too.

Really would appreciate knowing if you’re working on the problem or if you’re just going to let it run as is.

If it’s staying the way it is, I’ve got to find a new weather plugin seven days before the election.

That’s not so good.

Thank you for your help.

k

I’ve implemented additional caching in 2.0.9, just released, which should reduce server load. I hope it helps – please let me know if it doesn’t.

I do think that the P3 plugin profiling wasn’t working properly with 2.0.8 and the P3 plugin was making the plugin look bigger than it is. Even so, the 2.0.9 update should help server load.

Thanks Zack. It definitely shrunk the percentage of your WU in the P3 results. But I still have white page flashes in IE11. But if I go back to the old version, I very rarely see a page flash. Just to compare. It’s like 9 flashes out of 10 page loads with the new version. And it’s about 1 flash out of 15 with the old version. Something with the new version is causing some kind of delay which is causing the browser window to show all white, while it’s loading a page, where it didn’t before. Even if I change my site’s background color, I still have white screen flashes. i’m happy to work with you if you want to try a beta with me. Maybe it’s the loading of the font library you mentioned? Maybe force it to Arial and see if that changes things. I’ll be happy to try anything. Thanks again.

Zack:

When you get it straightened out, I hope you give this forum a shout. I’d love to put WU back on my site.

But BulldogOttawa.com covers municipal politics and we have a municipal election occurring on Monday. I can’t afford a plugin that at times takes up 60 per cent of my p3 plugin capacity when it is vitally important to have this site running smoothly. The weather just isn’t that important right now.

I’ve spent a lot of time at a busy time searching for a WU replacement. So as I said, I’d love to put WU back on the site. It was rock solid and I never had to give it a thought. I’d like that reliability back again.

kgray

@mharpen If you want to not use the font, you can use :

.wu-wrapper { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; }

@kengray20 – I feel you on needing it to work. You can always revert to the old plugin for now. here’s how.

Thanks Zack. That didn’t change the forecast font, I had to use:

.wu-wrapper * { font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important}

But it still didn’t get rid of the delayed page loads and the white page flash while loading a page. Perhaps because you’re still loading the font anyway.

The “verb” font you’re using looks very similar to Arial. You may want to consider Arial or another web safe font instead, and drop the additional font loading since something is slowing the new plugin down noticeably. Thanks again for your replies. Please keep trying to solve the delays. I know I can use the old plugin, but I can’t rely on customers updating other plugins and not this one when wp shows that new plugin updates are available.

Zack, it looks like there’s a bug in the php code. This is getting rendered in the table tag (see the $width var).

<table cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ border=”0″‘.$width.’ class=”wu-table-2″>

Also, may I please suggest an option to turn “Off” the alternate rows background color when showing days in rows. It looks much better keeping everything transparent, especially when pages have a texture background. The spacing is fine, I don’t think there’s any need for the alternate row background color, in case you just want to drop it rather than add an option. Thanks.