minimal responsive theme sidebar on posts pages

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  timethief · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 7:03 pm

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  This is directed to Staff and that’s why I added the modlook tag.

  Over the couese of the last week my blog has been very slow loading from the Admin side and it’s driving me crazy.

  I do not have a bloated browser – I am a minimalist in all things.

  I have tried other themes.

  I have removed all sticky posts and featured images from them.

  I require a minimal responsive theme with a sidebar on posts when displayed on their own pages (no featured images).

  Which themes do you suggest that I try please?

  Also is there some way to determine exactly which posts in my blog have featured images set? I want to edit those posts and remove the featured images from them.

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

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 9:30 pm

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  Hi Timethief,

  I’ve been digging Penscratch, personally, which is a really simple, modern-looking theme.
  https://wordpress.com/themes/penscratch/

  It’ll support widgets if you add them, which display in a sidebar, and if you only want them to show up on pages or single post pages, you can do that with the visibility feature: https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  There’s not really an easy way to remove featured images from all posts at once, but if you like, I can try exporting your data, remove the featured image metadata on my local computer using an SQL query, and then export a new data file for you. That should remove any references to featured images.

  Does that sound good? :)

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 9:33 pm

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  I forgot to mention, I’m not noticing slower page loads from the back-end of your site, nor on the front-end. We can see what kind of effect removing these featured images will have, and do some testing if load time issues persist.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 10:12 pm

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  Hi there,
  The slow loading time was addressed when I switched to using Expound after removing every sticky post designation and all the featured images in sticky posts.

  I am having the kind of day at work that has made me feel very “witchy” so after the weekend is over and I have recovered I’ll give Penscratch a try.

  There’s not really an easy way to remove featured images from all posts at once, but if you like, I can try exporting your data, remove the featured image metadata on my local computer using an SQL query, and then export a new data file for you. That should remove any references to featured images.

  Thanks. Maybe next week I will take you up on that after the two day workshop I’m attending this weekend on conflict resolution in the workplace and in everyday life.

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 1, 2015 at 6:40 pm

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  Sounds good, let me know! And enjoy the workshop. :)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2015 at 5:36 pm

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  I just recovered form the workshop. I didn’t conflicts to resolve but others did and all their youthful OTT EMO dialogue did me in. I’m too old for this. Need I say more?

  Now about the theme and slow loading time on Admin pages and all that. I changed to Penscratch. It’s a cool minimal theme. The loading time issue has disappeared. All is well. Thanks.

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm

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  Ha! :) Welcome back.