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February 21, 2014 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Simple Social Icons In The Header Widget Area Issues #91742rachelwildMember
Hi Mark,
Once again, thank you so much for your help. I'm very grateful for your input.
I've installed Clear Options, and although terrified by the prospect, I deleted a load of listed items.
Most of the listed items began with WPPA, which related to a deleted plugin, WP Photo Album Plus, and so these are the ones I went ahead and cleared.
I didn’t touch anything that referenced ‘Genesis’ or plugins that I know to be live.
However, I also found the following… which I find rather worrying. All of the timeouts relate to important facets of the site… although I have now deleted W3 Total Cache. Are the timeouts something to worry about, and should I be deleting these items or not?
_transient_dash_4077549d03da2e451c8b5f002294ff51 * Google it _transient_dash_4077549d03da2e451c8b5f002294ff51
_transient_genesis-update * Google it _transient_genesis-update
_transient_Listly-6Ri-gallery * Google it _transient_Listly-6Ri-gallery
_transient_Listly-Auth * Google it _transient_Listly-Auth
_transient_premise_version_info * Google it _transient_premise_version_info
_transient_timeout_dash_4077549d03da2e451c8b5f002294ff51 * Google it _transient_timeout_dash_4077549d03da2e451c8b5f002294ff51
_transient_timeout_genesis-update * Google it _transient_timeout_genesis-update
_transient_timeout_jetpack_https_test * Google it _transient_timeout_jetpack_https_test
_transient_timeout_Listly-6Ri-gallery * Google it _transient_timeout_Listly-6Ri-gallery
_transient_timeout_Listly-Auth * Google it _transient_timeout_Listly-Auth
_transient_timeout_premise_version_info * Google it _transient_timeout_premise_version_info
_transient_timeout_w3tc_cloudflare_ip_check * Google it _transient_timeout_w3tc_cloudflare_ip_check
_transient_timeout_w3tc_license_status * Google it _transient_timeout_w3tc_license_status
_transient_timeout_w3tc_minify_tested_filename_length * Google it _transient_timeout_w3tc_minify_tested_filename_length
_transient_timeout_wpcom_subscribers_total * Google it _transient_timeout_wpcom_subscribers_total
_transient_timeout_yoast_tracking_cache * Google it _transient_timeout_yoast_tracking_cache
_transient_w3tc_cloudflare_ip_check * Google it _transient_w3tc_cloudflare_ip_check
_transient_w3tc_license_status * Google it _transient_w3tc_license_status
_transient_w3tc_minify_tested_filename_length * Google it _transient_w3tc_minify_tested_filename_lengthI have also loaded WP Total Cache, and have enabled it in the easy' tab. I have not touched the 'advanced' tab yet. I'm not sure that it's working in this basic mode. (My site load times haven't improved any.) Is there a good support document to help me set the advanced settings?
My hosting company kindly bumped up the php and server memory, but sadly this hasn't improved load times either.
I am yet to optimise the images as recommended, and so hopefully this will have a very positive impact. I will use the plugin recommended by you.
There's two things that consistently come up in the site speed tests that are causing an issue.
The following link delivers a 404: /wp-content/themes/balance/images/header.png This appears to be a link that is auto created by Genesis as it is present on other Genesis pages where no header image has been loaded up, i.e. where the page title has simply been typed into WP.
Do you know why this is doing this? Do I need to submit a ticket to Studiopress for this one?
This link also causes quite a delay: http://www.wilddigital.co.uk/?custom-css=1&csblog=1&cscache=6&csrev=56
I got this whilst running W3 Total Cache and I'm still getting it now (after I deleted this plugin and replaced with WP Super Cache).Once again, thanks so much for your help. You really are very kind.
Have a great weekend.
All the very best,
RachelFebruary 17, 2014 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Simple Social Icons In The Header Widget Area Issues #90895rachelwildMemberDear Davinder and Songdogtech,
my sincerest apologies for my tardy response. This has been caused by a number of factors; illness, a forced evacuation due to storms and flooding (I live in Somerset, UK) and, to top it all, some major server outages which have damaged my site... some more, (as if I needed any help!) It's been some week!
I really appreciate your input, insights and advice. I haven't been able to action very much as I'm into day three with my hosting support ticket, waiting for the functionality of the essentially unbroken elements of the site to be restored before I can address the issues you've raised.
The advice re. W3 Total Cache seems sound. I have been issued with a Minify Error Message today. (I went in and slimmed down the functionality of W3 Total Cache in anticipation of deactivating the plugin... including all the debug options... and it's not happy!) My main concern in decommissioning plugins and replacing with others is that I've read that they leave tables and files behind which slow down WP sites over time... Is there any way of identifying which plugins create which tables? I have installed WP DBManager and so I'll be able to remove the tables if I knew which ones relate to decommissioned plugins.
Is there also a straightforward way of identifying and removing the text that the Db cache debug function in W3TC has dumped into my page source? Or, does the automatically get removed when I deactivate the Db cache debug function? (I've read the W3 Total Cache blurb about how it leaves 'detailed caching information' at the end of each page in the form of an HTML comment, so I've tried to find it in my source code, but have failed.
Songdogtech, I'm keen to try all of your suggestions. Thanks so much for offering such detailed ways in which to improve the ergonomics of my site. I see that both you and Davinder rate WP Super Cache, and I'm grateful to read that it's easier to use than W3 Total Cache. Do you also agree that WP Minify is worth trying?
Thanks again for all of your help. It's very much appreciated.
Davinder, I just followed and listed you on Twitter.
Songdogtech, I'm just about to trundle off and track you down as well :0)
rachelwildMemberHi Marcoevich,
Thanks so much for including an image. The display shown was very different from what I was looking at, and so I realised i was in the wrong place! I've had a couple of instructions from Studiopress to go to the home page of the forum to start a new thread (i.e. provided with a link to the home page with the instruction to start a new topic on that page!)... hence my confusion! Through your response I realised that I needed to go elsewhere, and the obvious place to go was within discussion areas by following one of the links on the home page... and so of course I found the response area! Thank you very much!
Best,
Rachel :0)rachelwildMemberHi Ken,
Thanks for your response. Very much appreciated.
I tried looking at the bottom of the page on the front page of the Community Forum, scoured the footer etc... but can't see anything to do with starting a new thread. Can you please be kind enough to tell me what i'm looking for? Many thanks :0)
rachelwildMemberHi,
I'm also having problems with sub nav colours. I'm using the Balance child theme.
I used some generic code by following the link below that changed my hover colour, but didn't deal with the issue I'm experiencing... that being I can't change the colour of the drop-down tab when I hover over the parent tab... so it's a background colour issue I guess...? (I have now stripped this code out of the css.style to try and use the code from Balance to remedy my issues.
This essentially is :: The tab that appears below the parent when I hover over the parent (About Us) is a plain white tab. I want to change the appearance of this tab, (either by creating an outline and displaying the site background colour or by changing the block colour of the tab). I'd really appreciate any help on this issue that anyone can offer.
(I'd have started my own thread if I could figure out how... it's my first time on here and I've looked everywhere for a 'start a new thread' option and couldn't find one.. sorry... however, the link below may sort your issue out for you and my topic is very much related... so I guess it's ok? If anyone would be kind enough to let me know how to start my own thread I would be very grateful.)
Good luck with this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-navigation-bar-background-color
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