harman79

Hi @hazem123

Did you manage to fix this problem? I am having the same issue. I have cleared the browser countless of times and requested re-crawling from google but after about a week the favicon remains the same. i.e. the wordpress favicon.

Regards

Daniel,

tbh I cannot find an option to remove my review so I made it fair by changing my initial rating and title. I mean, OK I knew that my review was too harsh the minute I wrote it and I know I would be pissed off if it was for my business….

Just as a final recap from me. I am pretty sure I tested everything thoroughly and I can reassure that I was not overagressive at my caching and/or optimisation settings. I pretty much tried every possible solution. In the end I just had to exclude your plugin from minification of css/js and combination of js to ensure that my site was not broken, albeit with a cost at performance. Deferring or async of the JS of your plugin also did not work (broke site), even though I did not have any popups coming right off at page load. I just had 7-8 popups, activated upon click for certain classes in the body of the page.

Regarding the migration, I did everything by the book, did it manually (used interconnect/it Search and Replace), tried it a few times. The posts, or at least parts of the posts (e.g. clickable classes for pop-up activation) had to be re-created. BTW I am pretty sure that I had a problem with losing clickable class names from within post options even when I reset the popup counter.

All measurements regarding speed were made using the std google lighthouse page. OK, no surprise that my page loading times were better since by removing your plugin, I shaved all the kbs of your JS, CSS files + some extra kbs from being able to unload a couple more jQuery scripts that your plugin was dependent on (mixitup comes to mind but it could be more than that).

Anyway, thanks for the time you took to reply, big ups for your great effort in writing and maintaining such a popular plugin. I am sure you are good at what you do, I am sure that your plugin works for 98% of the people (according to your ratings) but it just did not work for me.

Cheers,
Harry

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by harman79.

Daniel,

thanks for the time you took to reply.

I read through all your replies. I am not sure that I agree to all of it. I mean, the options were there, but they did not really work in practice. Your caching function did not integrate well with other popular caching or optimisation plugins (e.g. wp fastest cache or asset clean up or wp optimise). I got all sorts of funny behaviour, always related to your plugin. I understand that you dont have to be compatible with other 3rd party plugins, but then again this is the essence of wordpress; being compatible.

Upon migration, I also lost some of the data of the popup maker posts, so I am not sure I agree with your point about being purely js/css. I had to remake some of the posts (or maybe all of them, I dont remember).

Your plugin cannot be as lightweight as you claim it to be. All other elements, plugins, data being the same in my website, my mobile page ranking was at around 35-45 with popup maker and 50-60 without popup maker, its functionality being replaced by std tooltips. I know, a tooltip is not exactly the same but in my case it worked just as good.

Anyway, I am not the type of guy that wants to cause trouble and it seems that you value your effort and rigthly so. So, I will leave this review here for a few more days in order for you to see my answer and maybe have a look at these points and then I will delete it.

Thanks

Hi Jeff,

your plugin works fine. I asked the guys at WP Rocket and they explained to me that this is normal. Quoting their answer for future reference.

Yes, it’s normal, because the add-on causes local versions of the files to be created and used instead; see this article for more info about how it works:

https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/1103-google-tracking-add-on

My analytics functionality seems OK, since I get regular tracking every day. Thanks for the follow up.

Cheers

PS. No idea what @alimaskun is talking about.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by harman79.

I was totally reckless and did not do my homework properly… First off, my htaccess file was not empty. It was actually bloated with nonsense and duplicate rules from other caching plugins which I had installed in my quest to find the most suitable match for my needs… I deleted all duplicate rules and now it all works as it should!

Apologies for messing around in the support section of your plugin and thanks a lot for the time you took to even run gtmetrix for my site…

Appreciated, keep up the great work!

Nevermind,

I managed to find the problem.. My .htaccess file was bloated with nonsense and duplicate rules from other caching plugins which I had installed in my quest to find the most suitable match for my needs…

Disregard and thanks for the great plugin.

OK, thanks for the fast reply!

I have all settings in WP fastest cache as you suggested, so I will try their support or I will try another plugin.

Hooray to that!! The first review! Much appreciated mate!

Cheers,
Harry

Nevermind… Of course it does this.. Its just that

if (empty($_POST['your-{$string}']))

should be

if (empty($_POST["your-{$string}"]))

Cheers for the great plugin.

Harry

Hey,

thanks for the rating.. When I find time in the next couple of weeks I will have a go at your suggestion. I still don’t fully understand why they decided to remove the shortlink from WP 4.4.. People should have the freedom to use it if they want..

Cheers

Please disregard my stupid post mate. I had a total brain fart.. Wont even try to explain! Cheers for the plugin

@chouby

Thanks for that Chouby. It works great now!

@bibianowency – Thanks for the tip. It will certainly be used.

Hi,

thanks very much for your reply. Your suggestion worked like a charm and I can now farewell the numerous silly !importants from my css.

To answer your question, the site I am developing is fullscreen and heavily backgrounded. Therefore I had to stack backgrounds one on top of the other for the various divs of the theme (body, footer, header) so that it looks nice at all resolutions. Expectedly, your awesome theme does not offer such option. I mean, that would be an overkill..

Thanks once again guys. Your support team is one the best support teams out there.

Harry

OK,

lazy me… After a closer inspection I managed to find this..

In header php I moved all the php code related to the virtue_banner above the secondary menu div and voila…

Thanks anyway
Harry