Works as Billed but Slows Site Significantly

  • This string swap plugin works as intended but it was adding almost 2 seconds of load time to my bbPress installation per the P3 Plugin Performance Profiler. I had to disable it as a result.

    For those trying to achieve this without the slowdown, I was able to successfully change the names on my Forum software using the following code, added to the end of my Functions.php page in my theme:

    add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'my_bbp_custom_role_names');

function my_bbp_custom_role_names(){
 return array(

        // Keymaster
        bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'CHANGE THIS TO YOUR NAME', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
        ),

        // Moderator
        bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Moderator', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
        ),

        // Participant
        bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Participant', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
        ),

        // Spectator
        bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Spectator', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
        ),

        // Blocked
        bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Blocked', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
        )
    );
}
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  • Plugin Author David Decker

    (@daveshine)

    Thanks for your feedback!
    As you said, my plugin works as advertised, so there’s no reason to rate only with 2 stars! ??

    You could have opened a support thread about that issue in the forum here. There’s also already a topic about that issue, see here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/this-plugin-is-slowing-down-my-site-a-lot

    This all comes from the usage of WordPress’ own ‘gettext’ filter! A lot of strings don’t allow changing via filter yet, so we have to use a ‘gettext’ filter!

    The example of the dynamic role names will be changed in the same way you posted your example code – will come in the next version! NOTE: By the time of creating this plugin last year, there were no dynamic roles and no filter for it! For the sake of backward compatibility it was kept as is (via ‘gettext’ filter).

    I hope you’ll change your review to a better rating once my update is live. It will also include an option to disable all settings that use ‘gettext’ filter (this resulting in fewer changeable strings, of course).

    Thanks, Dave ??

    Plugin Author David Decker

    (@daveshine)

    @zachmatthews:

    Hi there again!

    The performance issues could now be solved with the complete removal of the “gettext” filter usage, in favor of another, way better solution.

    Please upgrade to version 1.4.0 of the plugin!

    Maybe you can update your review then? – Thanks in advance!

    Thanks, Dave ??

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