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Can’t say for sure, but it didn’t seem like 2.0 was lighter in resources (I had an earlier version of 2 working on a development version of the site before we moved servers). The attempts to connect with Facebook were the biggest drag, according to 3 different page speed testers i’d tried.
I would also see it get slow when it was rearranging posterboard items (almost like a stutter)… it didn’t happen all the time, but I could never figure out how to turn that off, because it would always try to rearrange things by image size, sliding events out of chronological order, which sort of defeated the purpose of it being in calendar order 🙂
If a lot of our visitors complain about it being gone, I’ll look for a solution, but for now, I don’t have any calendar for convention events.
Thanks again
Since I’m on a server with double the resources of my previous server, and the calendar seems to have been the primary source of slow site loads, even when the caching was on, this is a problem of having something pretty for a small segment of our visitors to look at vs sitewide functionality and performance.
We got a little over 2 years of fun out of using the calendar, but it’s not worth it anymore, seeing that it adds over 5 seconds to the load time (this was with the caching on previously), and doesn’t work as efficiently as before. It’s entirely possible that the problem is the Facebook connecting, since when I disable the calendar, all the hung connections to Facebook go away, but it’s a moot point now.
Thanks, but we won’t be using this plugin anymore, and likely won’t implement a calendar using this plugin on a new site we’re working on.
That seems to have stopped the errors about 80% of the time, but that twig fatal error pops up now and again, the FTP connection window always pops up when I’m trying to edit settings, and now with Posterboard view enabled, the site gets stuck trying to connect to Facebook, and the site takes about 100% longer to load.
I’m going to have to find another solution. Shame, this used to be a nice fast, easy to use plugin.
The problem appears to be file & directory permissions.
There seems to be something odd with the cPanel setup, and unless I change the entire installation to be world writable, I can’t do basic WP functions like plugin updates, I can only do everything manually via FTP.
This hasn’t been a problem, but apparently AIE1C wants to write to everything all the time, and it complains and complains and complains and fails and will never even save settings without wanting me to enter FTP info which doesn’t always work (wth, settings should be saved in the db, and you don’t need FTP info to do that).
At this point I’m not even sure if I can wipe the calendar setup entirely and reinstall version 1 fresh, see if it is less needy, or it looks like I’m going to have to find a new calendar solution, or just get rid of the calendar from this site entirely.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subtitles] Subtitles not behaving with views for home pageThat’s exactly what I ended up doing.
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified was doing what the RSS feed had been doing, adding the subtitle to the end of the post title.
I switched to Genesis Sandbox Featured Content plugin, and the subtitle display was no longer an issue… it’s a newer plugin, and seems to play a little better with HTML5, etc.
So it’s mostly fixed, from your standpoint. I still think it would be cool to be able to display the subtitle in the widget when desired, but that’s a question I have to ask the other plugin dev 🙂
Thanks again!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subtitles] Subtitles being added to titles in RSS feedAwesome… appears to be working. I see the subtitles removed from the raw site feeds, so it’ll likely be an hour or two before sites like FeedBlitz and iTunes update as well.
Thanks!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subtitles] Subtitles not behaving with views for home pageThe front page of http://www.sliceofscifi.com
Look at the section just below the videos, the reviews. The second review for a “Doctor HOW” novel has the subtitle added as part of the title. That space is still using the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin.
I switched most of the other widgets to use a newer one, Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget, but I’m also going to send a message to that widget’s dev, asking if there could be support for subtitles added, since I think it would be cool to have subtitles appear in some areas and not in others.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Subtitles] Subtitles not behaving with views for home pageHmmm. I think the problem is that the posts widget is adding the subtitle after the title, making it all title.
It is an older plugin… maybe I can poke around a little more with that.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP-SpamShield] Feature requests?Yep, I reinstalled Conditional Captcha, and my total database size shrank down from 110Mb to 90Mb, comments table down to 21Mb and commentmeta back down to a reasonable 4Mb.
To be honest, this site has been an active WP site since late 2005 or early 2006, so almost 9 years of posts & comments can add up. WP Spamshield has only been on the site July or so (version 1.3.5), and it’s already blocked almost 100k spam comments.
So if you think about the millions of spam comments Akismet has handled over the years, with Akismet never cleaning up after itself like they’ve been promising it would since the day it was added with WP 2.5, you can see why so many people are disappointed that the WP people don’t fix that first instead of adding other bells and whistles that don’t improve performance as much as this one thing could.
Since they seem to work together, and I need Akismet to prevent spamming of my Gravity Forms on that site, together all three shall stay 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP-SpamShield] Feature requests?Alas, the problem isn’t using the captcha, it’s Akismet itself.
Since being introduced in Akismet v2.5, it has been storing “comment histories”, tracking what’s been marked as spam, what comments have been approved by admins or manually marked as spam by admins. Instructions also used to give admins the option to tell Akismet to clean up after itself after 30 days.
This option never worked, from Day One of it being implemented. I found this out the hard way when I tried moving one of my sites, and the commentsmeta table was 90Mb, while the comments table was a little more than 55Mb.
There is no solution for this problem, other than go into your database and manually run a couple of SQL calls to clean it out. You’ll see that table drop from 25Mb to 5k in an instant.
As as bonus, as of Akismet v3.0, they don’t even have the option for “clean up” listed anymore. So people who pay attention to these things need a better option to keep that bad Akismet behavior in check, and for me the WP Conditional Captcha plugin was doing the trick. In addition to providing captchas, it was removing comment histories on the fly 🙂
Doing a search on “akismet+commentmeta” yields some interesting commentaries and angry end users, both on the web and in the WP.org forums.
Although now I’m finding a plugin called WP Clean Up that may also do what I need… time to test that out!
Anyway, thanks for a wonderful spam plugin… I’m planning on a write up of my favorite plugins for 2014, and this one is at the top.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP-SpamShield] Feature requests?Is the same true for Conditional Captcha?
If WP-SpamShield also won’t be affected by that being enabled at the same time, then things would be golden… that plugin has an “Akismet Enhanced Mode” that is invaluable in keeping the size of the commentsmeta table reasonably sized (which is really the only reason I want to get rid of Akismet, it’s failure to clean up comment histories like the description says it will)
This plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/
Commenting those lines out doesn’t seem to have changed anything, that I can tell.
Going back to the podcast posts and putting in shorter manual excerpts seems to be the only workaround for the time being.
If it helps, what I did with TwentyThirteen and TwentyFourteen was modify content.php so that it would display excerpts on categories and home page by changing this line:
<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>to be this:
<?php if ( is_search() || is_category() || is_home() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>content.php in both themes is calling the_excerpt() next.
With Genesis, I can choose whether to display full content, excerpts or content limit in the basic theme settings.
And for me, no worries, I just noticed it was odd behavior that I’d never seen before in years of using Powerpress, and thought someone should know 🙂
and I’ve added a thread to the Jetpack support referencing back here.
Currently using Genesis framework, fyi.
For the site in question, excerpts are preferred since the player doesn’t display using Content Limit feature.
I also just tested this out, and the links duplication does exist when using TwentyThirteen and TwentyFourteen & excerpts, and also when using the Genesis default child theme.
One odd thing I just discovered during this test is that on posts with manual excerpts, the duplication doesn’t exist.
That links duplication doesn’t exist with TwentyThirteen, TwentyFourteen nor with the Genesis default child theme on posts with manual excerpts (which may explain why I’ve never seen it on other Genesis sites where I have Powerpress installed, because most of those are using manual excerpts).
It seems like the theme I’m using does not override the auto-excerpts with manual excerpts on posts where they exist, and just displays auto-generated excerpts all the time.
The powerpress_links duplication only shows up on the auto-generated excerpts, if that helps any.
Yes, latest version of JetPack and WordPress.
After I installed the new theme on the live site, that’s when I noticed it (Jetpack wasn’t installed on the test site). The live site at the time of switchover was running Jetpack 3.0.1, so I updated to the latest version 3.1.1, but the extra text was still displayed after update.
Just enabled the “Try to Fix” option, and it does not resolve the issue (currently still enabled, you can see at link above and front page of same site).