Hi.
Sorry to have taken a while to come back to you … I have been away for a while.
I will be taking a look at this in the next couple of days.
Can you tell me: is the problem apparent when using the standard WordPress editor, or when using the SiteOrigin page builder (as I notice this is a recommended plugin for your theme).
Also, if you can let me know what version of WordPress you are running it may help me to reproduce the issue.
I have been trying to reproduce this problem on the latest version of WordPress using both the standard editor and the Site Builder page builder plugin … and I am not experiencing any delays in editing.
The “heavy lifting” in the plugin should only take place on the front end of the site, so it is hard to see how it could be slowing down the editing.
It may be some kind of interaction with another plugin, so if you can let me know the other plugins installed on the site I will do what I can to investigate.
Thanks for looking into this! We are running into slowdowns on non-Page Builder posts. We don’t use the child pages plugin on any Page Builder designed pages so I don’t know if the slowdown would also occur on those.
Wordpress version is 4.9.6
We’ve got a bunch of plugins on the site right now – some are not being used now that we’ve launched a new design and we’ll be deleting them soon but here is the current list:
All-in-One WP Migration
Blubrry PowerPress
Category Posts Widget
CC Child Pages
Co-Authors Plus
Custom Bulk/Quick Edit
Disqus for WordPress
Download Monitor
Duplicate Post
Enable Media Replace
File Gallery
Google Apps Login
JM Twitter Cards
Kadence Slider
Kraken Image Optimizer
MB Custom Post Type
Meta Box
MetaSlider
MetaSlider – Pro Add-on Pack
MonsterInsights – Dimensions Addon
MonsterInsights – Forms Tracking Addon
MonsterInsights Pro
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Podlove Web Player
Popup Maker
Post Type Switcher
Quotes Collection
Raw HTML
Redirect by Custom Field
Regenerate Thumbnails
Rich Text Tags, Categories, and Taxonomies
Search & Filter Pro
Show Current Template
Simple Local Avatars
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
Social Media Feather
Special Recent Posts PRO
Sticky Custom Post Types
Stop User Enumeration
Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens
TinyMCE Advanced
Top 10
Velvet Blues Update URLs
Widget Clone
Widget Content Blocks
WordPress Importer
WordPress Popular Posts
WP Engine Content Performance
WP Google Search
WP List Pages by Custom Taxonomy
WP Print Friendly
WPDM – Google Drive
WPDM – TinyMce Button
Wufoo Shortcode Plugin
Yoast SEO
There you have it. If you have any great ideas on what might be the conflict, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks again.
John.
Hi.
Just a quick check in to say that I have been testing with various configurations, and have been unable to reproduce the issue as yet.
I am still puzzled as to how the plugin could cause the slowdown that you describe, as it should not be doing any processing in the admin side of things … can you post the shortcode with all of its parameters exactly as it is used on the page that you mention so that I can investigate if there may be some logic flaw causing the plugin to evaluate in certain circumstances.
The only other thing I can think of would be to turn of the Visual Editor button (via Settings -> CC Child Pages) in case that is interacting with any of the other plugins …
Hi, yeah, I tried turning off the visual editing feature but that didn’t help.
But! Good news, the problem has been solved for us as of a few days ago. The solution? We moved our web site to a new hosting provider. On the new server, no slowdown occurs. In the end, it appears that the problem was somehow related to our former web hosting platform – WP Engine.
I really appreciate you looking into this issue and going down the rabbit hole trying to figure it out – I’m not sure what aspect of WP Engine’s hosting set up is causing the issue but hopefully if this issue ever pops up for someone in the future, you can ask if they are using WP Engine and get WP Engine to step in and solve the problem.
Glad to hear that the issue is sorted for you …
I would suspect that the problem is due to how some combination of the plugins installed interact, using too many of the available resources and just hitting a limit on the WP Engine hosting.
I will continue to keep an eye out for anywhere the plugin may be doing things on the admin side but (unless there’s a bug I have yet to spot) inserting a shortcode shouldn’t cause any delays.
