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What can I do?

Please?

Honestly, please tell me what we can do to fix the load times.

As a quick note, the link above no longer uses Oria as the load times have caused a huge increase in bounce rate. I’d love to switch back to Oria if I can.

I really would like to see this corrected. Please let me know what I can do to make that happen.

Thanks!

Is there a way we could contribute, or pay for this fix? I know it is work to get it done.

I’m fairly certain the issue is largely due to the theme not making use of thumbnails. Is there a way to fix it without changing theme — it really is very, very well done except for this loading bottleneck.

I am also experiencing this issue. The problem isn’t with hosting, it appears to be two-fold.

1.) The site is essentially blanked out during preload, which is less than ideal.

2.) For some reason Oria is not making use of thumbnails. The theme loads full size images to display its grid, which means all of the full-sized images have to load before the site displays.

In combination, these two things lead to a site that, on arrival, can take a minute or more to load. This, of course, leads to high bounce rates, because anything more than a few seconds makes many users assume the site won’t load at all.

Pixelshrink’s previous suggestion, does not work – at least for me.

Other ideas? Is there a way to make Oria load thumbnails of the suggested images, rather than the full image itself?

I’m afraid, for me, adding:

div.preloader {
display: none;
}

disables the responsive grid, laying one post on top of another, essentially making my site look broken.

Perhaps I added it to the wrong place in the CSS? I tried a few locations with the same broken result. Is there a specific place in the code it should go?

Also, is there a way to not use the featured image, but just embed an image in the post without the blank box above?

see this example of embedded image:
https://momphoto.com/1000faces/?p=80

vs.

featured image
https://momphoto.com/1000faces/?p=74

and for some reason this post shows no image:
https://momphoto.com/1000faces/?p=77

stoatoffear,

Thanks for helping with this! You were right, the hatch-child wasn’t being applied. It turns out WordPress wasn’t recognizing the css file for the stylesheet – I’m not sure why, but I suspect the file itself was saved in the wrong format.

Any thoughts on how I could get 10 columns and 10 rows of smaller icons versus the present default?

With regard to the above, I don’t know what “Do theme setup on the ‘after_setup_theme’ hook” means. Perhaps I failed to do it?

Okay…

style.css:

/*
Theme Name: Hatch Child
Description: Child theme for Hatch theme
Author: stoatoffear
Template: hatch
*/

@import url("../hatch/style.css");

functions.php:

<?php

/**
* @package Hatch Child
* @subpackage Functions
* @version 0.1
* @author DevPress
* @link https://devpress.com
* @license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/

/* Do theme setup on the 'after_setup_theme' hook. */
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'hatch_child_theme_setup', 11 );

function hatch_child_theme_setup() {

    /* Get action/filter hook prefix. */
    $prefix = hybrid_get_prefix();

    /* Custom image sizes */
    remove_action( 'init', 'hatch_image_sizes' );
    add_action( 'init', 'mytheme_image_sizes' );

}

function mytheme_image_sizes() {

	add_image_size( 'single-thumbnail', 650, 825, true );

}
?>

I gave it a try. No luck.

I tried working with the child theme, but I don’t see any change to my images – they remain cropped and I desperately want them to appear in portrait orientation.

As per your instructions above I have:
A: Deleted and removed my featured image to get a fresh one uncropped one.

B: Installed a fresh copy in case I somehow made some change.

C: Made sure I inserted the code exactly as show above.

D: If I paste the code into this forum it will look exactly as it does above.

I have so many portraits I would like to upload, but I can’t figure out how to fix this! If its any help, the original images are all exactly the same size 650 x 825 and thus the thumbnails will always be in the same proportions.

You can see the site here:

https://momphoto.com/1000faces/