Title: Loading Oddity
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Loading Oddity

 *  [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/)
 * Hey guys–
 * Visit [http://www.katehackett.com/wordpress](http://www.katehackett.com/wordpress)
   and you’ll understand my question.
 * It loads great, fine, dandy, and then! all of a sudden! a pause. A long pause
   and then the rest loads.
 * What’s up with that?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238322)
 * It’s the “Buddylist”. It freezes halfway through loading it and then pauses before
   finishing the other half. Are you calling the list remotely, either through a
   plugin or PHP include?
 *  Thread Starter [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238324)
 * uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhm.
 * It’s in the wordpress “links” thing….
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238370)
 * uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhm.
 * Try getting rid of it. Do you see any improvement? This is called “troubleshooting”.
 *  Thread Starter [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238392)
 * Get rid of my buddy list?
 * Dude. I don’t know if you’re deliberately being sarcastic/caustic, I’ll assume
   not. In any case: That’s highly unhelpful.
 *  [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
 * (@ifelse)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238393)
 * _“Dude. I don’t know if you’re deliberately being sarcastic/caustic, I’ll assume
   not. In any case: That’s highly unhelpful.”_
    Whilst it could have been phrased
   better, what Macmanx is saying is actually very helpful.
 * If you *temporarily* remove the suspicious areas and an improvement shows up,
   that would definitely identify it as the area of concern. If not, then you carry
   on looking, knowing that it was a red herring.
 * In other words, you are honing in on the problem. Try it. Don’t be so quick to
   anger;)
 *  Thread Starter [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238406)
 * Then I have to add all my links again. Huge waste of time, I’ll live with the
   lag.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238407)
 * Edit your theme’s sidebar.php via the Theme Editor and remove this line (or a
   line similar to it):
 * `<?php get_links_list(); ?>`
 * That is the call to display the list. Removing it will prevent the list from 
   being displayed. If the problem continues, then the Buddy List is not at fault,
   and you can easily put that line back. I hope this is just as unhelpful as my
   last comment.
 *  [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238408)
 * while you might not mind the lag, your readers might.
 *  Thread Starter [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238411)
 * nope, it’s not the buddy list. The lag happens after the cal. starts up when 
   I remove that line.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238419)
 * Try disabling each of your plugins one-by-one, then check the load afterwards.
   If it’s not the buddy list (the point at which it is visibly freezing), then 
   it has to be one of the plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * (@khackett)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238433)
 * Hm. Seems to be shortstat. Any suggestions? I’d like to keep it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 11 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [khackett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khackett/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-oddity/#post-238433)
 * Status: not resolved

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