Pages taking Long Time To Load

Hi Rich,

We clearly didn’t think about the possibility to use the plugin without internet connection. We’ll address this in the next update.

For now, as it seems like you have access to the server running it you can reroute this domain inside your hosts file to ‘localhost’ or whatever. This will cause it to fail, without the wait and timeout. This will mean that Font Awesome icons will not work in the mean time.

Next time please open a topic in the support forums for MaxButtons PRO instead of here, where we only support the free plugin.

OK… I’ll give the redirect to local host a try for now. I just noticed that another attempt from WP is being made to 0.gravatar.com that I’ll need to deal with as well.

I post to the Pro site next time.

I thought I read somewhere we there is a way to have the Font Awesome locally on the server?? I’m fairly new to WP.

I did try and install the plugin “Bootstrap CDN” and decided I would take a look at some of the files in your plugin’s folders where I was able to grep the existence of the “maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com” calls. It seems that the plugin was able to locate and comment out one of the files but may not have had the smarts to deal with the other calls in the functions within maxbuttons-pro-class.php. At the top of maxbuttons-supprt.php I believe it did comment that one out. I have no idea what the plugin “Bootstrap CDN” does to the full WP install when choose / set it to “Disable”…

Anyway, If there is a way to choose to locally have the maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com or Font Awesome that would be great.

Rich

OK the remap to localhost from withing the hosts file works ONLY on my server.

It seems that I would have to so this on every other computer on the private network as their particular web browser process the request locally on that computer vs. through our server where the WP site originate from.

I’m trying to find a way to have Apache deal with blacklisted sites that if a site being hosted on it tries to make a call to another site that’s on the list, it just ignores the call, possibly sending it to localhost. That way the call to the external site never makes it to the browser on the other computer and stays local to where we have our Apache and WP server running. Heck if we could do that I could process the request locally to the external site as that machine is on the internet. Yes, our private network can communicate to my server which is connected to the internet, however the private network cannot directly communicate to the internet. Of course this is assuming that all the php is running on the server and that the local Apache and Server can trap the outgoing requests from WP and make them from the server.

OK… I’m typing toooo much here… IF the localhost idea was suppose to actually work, it did not, and I’m only guessing it’s because that machine’s hosts file does not have the same settings as my server running WP. It still takes a very long time to load.

Rich

Ok ??

1) Gravatar.com calls are WordPress, not our plugin.

2) You are right (sorry) , host files work on client computers, not on the server so that’s a problem. You can just comment out wp_enqueue_style on the two font-awesome declarations for now

3) We’ll fix this next update, probably next week ?? ( or make an option to turn it off or so )

Hi Rich,

The newest update 3.14 doesn’t load Font Awesome from an external domain anymore, so your problem should be solved.

Additionally there is a filter in case you want to change the place from where the font awesome file is called, but you probably don’t need that.

Many thanks!

Great response and support!

OK ;-D

Thanks! I’m happy it’s fixed. I’ll mark this as resolved.