Cubic/Boardwalk Theme CSS performance problem
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At the post level the CSS on Cubic/Boardwalk is very slow to load. a friend (who knows his onions) has pointed out that the issue is as follows: the blank page problem is caused by the stylesheet with the id “all-css-8” – it is setting an opacity of 0 on the class “site” – not sure why, but if you remove that particular style, it works ok. This is inherited from Boardwalk.
This may be the issue here too: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-loads-extremely-slow?replies=7#post-2384333
My question is, can I edit the theme on my .com site (not premium) or do I need to wait for a fix from Automattic? And if the latter how ought I request a fix?
I may also port the blog to a .org instance I’m running and try and edit there (new to WP theme editing though, so yak shaving and much breaking of internets is likely)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Could you please give me an example of a post that you find it loading very slowly so I can take a look?
“the blank page problem” – what do you mean by this, could you explain more in detail? Can you provide a link to a blank page that I can look at?
My question is, can I edit the theme on my .com site (not premium) or do I need to wait for a fix from Automattic? And if the latter how ought I request a fix?
Theme files can’t be edited. Once we get to the bottom of the problem we’ll see what can be done and take it from there. Thanks!
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Hi Kathryn,
Sure, I’ve reactivated Cubic (I had switched back to twenty fifteen as I couldn’t find a fix). It’s a completely vanilla cubic installation.
The page is here: https://meeware.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/collaboration-workshop-reflections/
I’m finding it really really slow on any browser actually. Can you let me know when you’ve been able to take a look please, as I’d really like to revert back to twenty fifteen as soon as I can so people can see my site!
Thanks
Ant
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Thanks a lot! One thing I noticed right away is that your logo file is nearly half a meg. Could you try resizing it in a graphics program so it’s a smaller-sized file, re-upload it, and let me know if that makes a difference in the load time?
Did you also have any more detail about this:
“the blank page problem” – what do you mean by this, could you explain more in detail? Can you provide a link to a blank page that I can look at?
Do you find single posts slow on the demo site too?
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Hi,
Yes the “blank page problem” is that page linked to above sitting there blank for ages. Slow loading, or hanging, in other words.
Thanks for the logo tip- hadn’t spotted that.
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Oh and one other point worth mentioning is that when I swapped out cubic for twenty fifteen, the page was fast to load.
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When I dug through the css the styles.css file section 18 Pace seemed to be where the problem code sat.
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Note also the same post on the same theme on my self hosted wp site seems fine…. http://beerthimbles.com/2015/05/18/collaboration-workshop-reflections/
Yup now I am v confused.
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Thanks a lot for the additional info! I’m seeing the blank-page effect now on your site and we’re investigating what’s going on. I’ll keep you posted here!
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Cheers, thanks for your patience. It’s a weird one isn’t it! I think that user mariejaster raised a very similar issue (and she too had a silly big logo file!)
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After some investigation, we’ve changed your sharing-button style from the “official” style to “icon only” and it seems to have helped with the loading, could you let us know if it’s better for you as well?
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Hi there,
We have now fixed the issue regarding the “official” buttons vs loading time.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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