Illustratr theme loading issue

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  bernadetteartwork · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 3:49 pm

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  Hi there, I’ve been building my portfolio pages and I’m finally almost done, but I’m having serious concerns about how long it takes to load my portfolio pages, especially on my ipad.
  My photos are fairly small, each about 500k, but some of my pages have 30, 40 or even 90 pictures.
  is there anything I can do to make these pages load more quickly and reliably? I’ve spent a lot of time building and would be so disappointed to have to abandon this theme because it wont load. I dont even know of a possible alternative if I can make this work.
  Thanks of any help, suggestions or alternatives you can share…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 4:27 pm

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  These are the ways to reduce page loading time:

  1. Edit posts and insert “the more tag” so only excerpts appear on the front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  2. Reduce the number of posts appearing on the front page here > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts

  3. Reduce the number of images and or media embeds displayed and/or make them smaller.

  4. Reduce the number of widgets in the sidebar and footer areas.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 4:28 pm

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  I’ll also provide the link for the iOs forum for the WordPress app so you can post there http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting and get specific help for reducing page loading time on iPads.

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.org, click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to to those forums.

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  bernadetteartwork · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 5:30 pm

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  Thank you so much for your response, timethief. :)
  The issue is happening with my portfolio project pages, not my post pages, if that makes sense?
  For example, this page is particularly heavy:
  https://bernadetteartwork.wordpress.com/project-type/christmas-paintings/
  This page in particular has about 90 images, which I understand is a lot, but maybe you know: is there any option for lazy loading, or even pagination, within projects?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 14, 2015 at 5:36 pm

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  Next page pagination is possible http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/nextpage/
  See also page jump links:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/links-to-specific-points-on-a-page/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/