Happy to give advice publicly on these forums
Thread Starter
JT
(@jtripp81)
I was hoping that you could look at my back end and review my use of WL to see if I am using it in an optimal way.
I’ll have to figure out how to convey it on here though.
Thanks!
Thread Starter
JT
(@jtripp81)
I have created a screenshot to capture my back end the results of a P3 profiler scan, and my current active plug ins.
Basically what I am doing is having multiple pages display their own widget and that has caused me to create a lot of widgets. It seems that since I have created all these widgets that my widgets.php page takes a good 15 seconds to add a new widget to a sidebar. I can use accessibility mode, but that is rather tedious and the under lying problem still exist. Also since I have added all these widgets it seems my whole admin is running painfully slow. I’m hoping you may be able to advise me on how to approach this in an optimal way (if possible).
Link to the site
http://lichange.org/wp/betasite
Under the business menu are pages where the vast majority is being used. I still need to create another 30 plus pages using this setup.
Back end
http://imgur.com/C2tpQcx
P3 profiler
http://imgur.com/pXCtZTG
Plugins
http://imgur.com/esgItCF
Thanks!
oof – that’s quite extensive, and must be quite difficult to maintain. I haven’t quite got my head around what you are trying to do there. It looks like each page has its own widget with some content in it?
What’s the “widget content” widget you are using there doing? If it’s just displaying some static HTML/text, there’s definitely a more efficient way of doing this – using a post “meta” field to store the content and a single widget that displays that data.
Thread Starter
JT
(@jtripp81)
Yeah it is extensive.
The widget content is basically a post with content in it that gets sucked up into the widget by selecting the identifier.
The public site runs okay, could improve, but the backend runs slow.
I’m not sure what you mean by your solution.
Thread Starter
JT
(@jtripp81)
Here is a screenshot of the widget content section.
View post on imgur.com
I was thinking of something like http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-field-widget/
you can place a single widget in a widget area, and its content is taken from a post/page’s “custom field”. Take a look and see if you could use something like that – even if not *exactly* that plugin, something close. (The main drawback of that plugin appears to be the static widget title text, but I guess you could leave that blank and put a header like <h2>Page specific widget title</h2> in the custom field
Thread Starter
JT
(@jtripp81)
Thanks for that. I’m not sure if it will satisfy what I am trying to accomplish. Like how do I send a post/widget content to a certain widget on a certain page. I’ll keep plucking away at it.
In regards to your widget there’s nothing that I can do to use it in a more optimal way?
The development version might improve things for you as it ‘caches’ some code execution, which when you have that many widgets might have a significant impact
http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/developers/
otherwise no.
The custom-field-widget plugin allows you to have just ONE widget, not one widger per page, one widget for ALL the pages. The content for that is edited along with the page in a custom field.
