Pagination / Page navigation?

  • Resolved shooz

    (@shooz)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    This plugin looks amazing, and it works great for categories/taxonomies etc. that don’t have alot of posts in them.. however I have several categories with 100s of posts in them, which causes many of the images not to load (Photon CDN), very slow page load times, and generally looks like a mess.

    I also have two categories with close to 1000 posts in them, those won’t load at all.

    As for the images breaking, apparently that happens when your server loads the page faster than the Photon CDN can keep up with serving the images.

    So for my request, would it be possible to add a limit to how many items are shown on a subindex, and then split the items on pages, with a numbered page navigation (or just some kind of pagination) within the subindex ?

    This would really add functionality to the plugin, and make it usable for all kinds of sites.

    Best Regards
    Shooz

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by shooz.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Thread Starter shooz

    (@shooz)

    No update on this ?
    I would really like to use your plugin, but in it’s current state, it’s broken for sites like mine with alot of content.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by shooz.
    Plugin Author Jayce53

    (@jayce53)

    Hi Shooz,

    Sorry for the delay – I hadn’t noticed your post.

    Indexes that have a very large number of items will be slow to load the very first time the index is displayed, because EasyIndex creates thumbnails on the fly if they don’t already exist. So when an index is displayed for the first time and the thumbnails don’t exist, EasyIndex will create them all during the page load and that can be slow. To get around this, you can use the “Generate Thumbnails” option on the index edit page. That will create the thumbnails for all the posts that will be included on the index, that exist at that time. Then when the index page is displayed, thumbnails will not need to be generated (other than newly added posts) and the display should be reasonably fast.

    Pagination is an option we have on the ToDo list for a future update.

    The Photon CDN has a serious limitation – it never updates its cache – which is problematic for image URLs that use query parameters to invalidate caches, like EasyIndex does. So the latest version of EasyIndex has an option to bypass the Jetpack photo CDN for index images. Yopu can read more at https://support.easyindexplugin.com/support/solutions/articles/6000030597-the-easyindex-settings-page#disable-jetpack-cdn

    Thread Starter shooz

    (@shooz)

    Thanks for the throughout response Jayce!

    I understand, however i still haven’t found a way to make it work for my bigger categories, it always times out, and show a blank page instead. Even after adjusting my php and server timeout settings. I guess it’s never a good idea to load +1000 items on one page.

    I will wait patiently for the pagination to be added.

    Thought i had already added my solution for this, guess it didn’t save it.
    But i solved all Photon problems in relation to your plugin, by using lazy load.

    Plugin Author Jayce53

    (@jayce53)

    I would be very interested to find the cause of the blank page when there’s a large number of items. Once the thumbnails exist, the processing required to display an index shouldn’t be very great even if there are 1,000’s of items. If you’re willing, I’d be happy to take a copy of your data and profile it on our debug server to find what the problem actually is (and hopefully fix it!).

    If you want to do this, leave me a ticket at https://support.easyindexplugin.com/support/home

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Jayce53.
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