Alex Cicovic

Great, thanks.

@flipside37 thanks for letting me know.

Thanks, I will try out the plugin.

Thanks!

@webnus in general it would be nice to optimize where possible so plugin assets do not create many requests or are too heavyweight which is currently the case.

I have not looked in detail, but For example it seems that FontAwesome is loaded even when the custom fonts option is turned off. Owl Carousel, Select2, Tooltip.js etc are not always required but seem to be loaded anyway. All CSS is probably crammed inside that beefy minified CSS file, but usually we need just a small subset of it in any given page.

So it isn’t a surprise that MEC impacts performance a lot and I think that in the current state of things this is a problem.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the features and the development that you’ve been putting into the plugin. However, today performance is as important as functionality so I recommend to your developer team to look how they can compartmentalize assets and load them intelligently. It is as important as adding features.

For example, if a library or icons are not needed, do not load them. Another thought, put the base CSS in one file and then create a CSS file for Grid styles, another for List styles etc. Removing unused libraries and serving less CSS will make things faster. And even if there are 2 requests for CSS files instead of 1, if the download is 5 times smaller then there is significant gain in performance.

I hope that this makes sense and that your team will be able to sort it out.

Thanks!

Hello,

@lenasterg and @flipside37 I have contributed some translations already and perhaps I can do some more. I just did so and then stumbled upon this thread. I think that an important thing to agree upon is how the string “Event” will be translated. We have some options like “Εκδ?λωση”, “Συμβ?ν”, “Δρ?μενο”. Perhaps we should take this discussion somewhere else though.

@webnus it seems to me that that “DAY”, “HRS”, “MIN”, “SEC” in countdown is not translatable.

Have you tried to change Settings->Slugs/Permalinks->Main Slug to something other than ‘events’?

Hi, thank you for your answer.

Should I replace the plugins files or is it better to disable it, uninstall it and then install it again?

Thanks!

Hi, thank you for your answer.

Should I overwrite the plugin’s files or is it better to disable it, uninstall it and then install it again?

Thanks!

Thanks!

OK, thanks!

Hi DNutbourne,

Thank you for your answer. My question was more about whether UpdraftPlus does something to randomize the filenames so the files can’t be directly downloaded by a third party. If the filename is predictable, then someone else could potentially download your zip files and have all your data.

It would be good if we could actually store the backup in a non-public location on the server. Perhaps this is something worth considering as a feature?

Thanks!

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. Currently I cannot give access to the site, but if you tested with GeneratePress and it works then it might be some plugin which causes the problem. I currently have no time to test this but if I find it I’ll let you know.

Thank you for your response.

Hi

I tested with Twentyfifteen and TwentySeventeen themes and the plugin operates more correctly (it still shows the bullets but at least spacings are correct). The problem I see when I use the plugin with GeneratePress is that the li element containing the image is set smaller than the image itself, which results in images sticking one to another. So it is like the calculation is not or cannot be done correctly when using GeneratePress theme.

For the time being, I did use another plugin to get the job done. If you fix this let me know and I will revisit this plugin.

Thank you for your time.

I have cross-posted this to the GeneratePress developers here, so we can see if this issue is somehow connected to the theme.