Chris M.

So, this (the whole section):

function comments_evolved_get_gplus_count($url = "") {
  include_once COMMENTS_EVOLVED_LIB . '/simple_html_dom.php';
  if(empty($url)){ $url = get_permalink(); }
  $link = 'https://apis.google.com/_/widget/render/commentcount?bsv&href=' . urlencode($url);
  $link_body = get_transient('ce_'.$link);
  if (false === $link_body) {
    $link_body = wp_remote_retrieve_body(wp_remote_get($link));
    set_transient('ce_'.$link, $link_body, 60);
  }
  $link_body = str_get_html($link_body);
  if(!empty($link_body)) {
  $count_raw = $link_body->find('#widget_bounds > span', 0);
}
  $count_arr = split(" ",$count_raw->plaintext);
  return trim($count_arr[0]);
}

Heads up on version 1.5.7 from Github (not sure about any other version):

I ran a plugin performance test with P3’s Plugin Performance Profiler and I found that Gplus Comments took a whopping 62.95% of the cake. This seriously needs to be addressed (as I’m sure you can appreciate). Look at the comparison with other plugins on the same site in question…

Plugin list:
===========================================
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.0152 sec – 0.87%
Akismet – 0.1018 sec – 5.81%
Digg Digg – 0.0911 sec – 5.20%
Genesis Enews Extended – 0.0093 sec – 0.53%
Genesis Simple Edits – 0.0093 sec – 0.53%
Google Analytics For WordPress – 0.0157 sec – 0.90%
Gplus Comments – 1.1033 sec – 62.95%
OptimizePress – 0.1083 sec – 6.18%
Polldaddy Polls & Ratings – 0.0408 sec – 2.33%
Share a Draft – 0.0079 sec – 0.45%
Simple Social Icons – 0.0037 sec – 0.21%
Simple Urls – 0.0068 sec – 0.39%
Subscribe To Comments – 0.0042 sec – 0.24%
Wordfence Security – 0.0868 sec – 4.95%
Wordpress Seo – 0.0676 sec – 3.86%
Worker – 0.0806 sec – 4.60%

Hey Brandon…

Was wondering if you ever found a way to improve the load times from 1.5.5? Looking forward to an update.

Looks like it works now! Comment counts are aggregated properly now!!! SO AWESOME man… I love it!

Looking forward to the update… Thanks again Brandon!

Oh, LOL… I see. So I shouldn’t have put that in the functions.php then.

Alright, so now I should find where the get_comments_number() is used in my theme and REPLACE it with this?

echo comments_evolved_get_total_count() . " comments";

Thanks Brandon. You rock, as always…

So I can just use this function in my functions.php until you push out an update?