Contact Form 7 still loading

@bryanne, I’ve just checked and the plugin works as expected. Basically, I went to https://themicrogardener.com/about/contact/ – edited the page, unloaded “contact-form-7” script (location: https://themicrogardener.com/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/js/scripts.js) and after checking the page, it doesn’t load anymore. Moreover, now, because the script is not loading anymore, the AJAX (no page reload, in short) validation is missing from Contact Form 7 and the moment you press “SEND”, it reloads the page.

WP Asset CleanUp does not deactivate other plugins, that’s a task that plugins such as “Plugin Organizer” plugin can do. My plugin unloads assets such as CSS and JavaScript (e.g. https://themicrogardener.com/wp-content/themes/Avada/assets/min/js/general/avada-contact-form-7.js – which in this case is related to Avada theme) from those plugins to “Reduce the number of HTTP requests” and have the browser download fewer resources when loading the pages. This is a front-end optimization thing.

Unloading Contact Form 7’s assets should be done on ALL pages of your website, EXCEPT obviously the page that loads the contact form.

Let me know if anything is unclear and I’m happy to assist you with that. You gave me an idea to write an article about it and explain in more depth how this works.

>>> What do you feel is a sensible fully loaded page speed score that we could gain and what might be involved?? Should I correspond with you at your email address on this issue?

Have a look here: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/themicrogardener.com/NzQkXXkv – I need to do an analysis of your website to give you more details, we can talk about it if you decide to go on with the page speed task.

Yes, please write me to my email moving forward, I’d like to mark this thread as “solved” once everything would make sense to you.

>>> As regards the functionality of the plugin I think I now understand how it works. I was thinking that by deactivating the handles I was actually deactivating the plugin completely. Is that correct?

Correct! You’re only preventing the “Contact Form 7” plugin to load CSS and JavaScript files, nothing else.

>>> Is it a good idea to use both Plugin Organizer AND your plugin? For my understanding, I could have used Plugin Organizer to also achieve the same thing with the contact form except that your method is a little bit better in that the Contact Me page would load faster ie it would only call on resources at the point of clicking on the “SEND” button?

Plugin Organizer prevents the chosen plugin(s) from loading, thus any CSS and JS files would also not load since they are called from the plugin. There are situations when you need to have a plugin working, but, for instance, from 10 HTTP Requests that are loading on a page, you might need only 5 of them. That’s when WP Asset CleanUp can be used because Plugin Organizer will deactivate everything about that plugin and you don’t want that. Also, your theme could load files that are not needed in certain pages and you might want to unload them. Plugin Organizer as its name suggests is just for plugins.

>>> Also Gabe, although I set Contact Form 7 script to load only on the Contact page, the “Make Fewer http requests” result in GT Metrix is unchanged – does this surprise you?

It doesn’t surprise me as you can’t just expect to have a significant score increase just because two fairly small files were unloaded. Once you unload more files and then you combine the remaining ones using a cache plugin (or Autoptimize that you already use) into fewer files, then you will notice a difference in speed.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Gabe Livan.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Gabe Livan.