Jono.Rogers

Hi guys..

First post here..

So luckily enough when I ran across this issue, Nivo just announced v3 which has built-in support for flexible image sizes – Nivo Blog

So I looked at fixing this issue by upgrading to Nivo 3. Turns out it’s really easy.

Step 1.

Download Nivo 3, overwrite all content in the nivo-slider/ directory inside the plugin dir with the new files.

Step 2.

Force Header Image Slider to stop using width and use max-width instead, so that Nivo will play nice..

Change line 491 of header-image-slider.php to fix the jQuery for the auto-insert:

Pastebin for line 491 of header-image-slider.php here: PasteBin

For php (boom_header_image()), also change boom_header_image and boom_get_header_images, pastebin for those two methods:
PasteBin

Edit: Step 3:

Fix slider-css.php

Overwrite the relevant CSS sections with this: Pastbin

Edit 2:

So, I’m not sure if it was the theme I’m using (Yoko), or just strangeness – but things got weird at small resolutions. Yoko is a responsive theme and does do resizing based on media queries, so I just turned my slider off at small sizes, Pastebin

You can check it out, working and all here

That should be it! Yay, flexible sliders which will auto-resize. Tested in Chrome, Firefox & IE 9/10, no issues.

Sorry but that doesn’t really help me; it shows that the theme makes way too many database calls (expected); the page load was slow (expected), and bugger all else. How do you see where the memory is going using that plugin?

Profiler Initiaded	0.0000 ms	16298 kB
Profiler Noise	0.0200 ms	16298 kB
Profiler Stopped	357.3320 ms	22891 kB

That is the only “memory” statistics I can get out of it. Not exactly what I was hoping for. Anyway I don’t have much a clue at how to debug/profile PHP on remote systems in general, it doesn’t matter if the advice is a bit techy but as long as it will actually help me pinpoint the suckers taking up memory usage. Think windows task manager – I want to see the processes which are taking up all my memory.