Blog Slider Slows Load Time – Reduce # of Posts?

  • We switched over to Enigma this afternoon and love it, very clean and easy.

    The one problem is that using the blog slider slows down the front page horribly. It seems to be scrolling through all of the posts, or a lot of them. Any way to reduce that # to a handful, maybe of the most recent? Those are what our users wold want to see anyway.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi,

    Please create Child theme first and create home-blog.php in child theme directory and then copy below code in home-blog.php

    <div class="enigma_blog_area" id="enigma_blog">
<?php $wl_theme_options = weblizar_get_options();
if($wl_theme_options['blog_title'] !='') { ?>
	<div class="container" >
		<div class="row">
			<div class="col-sm-12">
				<div class="enigma_heading_title">
					<h3><?php echo esc_attr($wl_theme_options['blog_title']); ?></h3>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
	<?php } ?>
	<div class="container">
	<div class="row" id="enigma_blog_section">
	<?php 	if ( have_posts()) :
			$posts_count =6;
			$args = array( 'post_type' => 'post','posts_per_page' => $posts_count ,'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1);
			$post_type_data = new WP_Query( $args );
			while($post_type_data->have_posts()):
			$post_type_data->the_post(); ?>
			<div class="col-md-4 col-sm-12 scrollimation scale-in d2 pull-left">
			<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper">
				<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase">
					<?php $img = array('class' => 'enigma_img_responsive');
							if(has_post_thumbnail()):
							the_post_thumbnail('home_post_thumb',$img);
					endif; ?>
					<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_overlay">
						<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_overlay_inner ">
							<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_icons">
								<a title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><i class="fa fa-link"></i></a>
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<?php if(get_the_tag_list() != '') { ?>
				<p class="enigma_tags"><?php the_tags('Tags :&nbsp;', '', '<br />'); ?></p>
				<?php } ?>
				<?php the_excerpt( __( 'Read More' , 'weblizar' ) ); ?>
				<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="enigma_blog_read_btn"><i class="fa fa-plus-circle"></i><?php _e('Read More','weblizar'); ?></a>
				<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_footer">
					<ul class="enigma_blog_thumb_date">
						<li><i class="fa fa-user"></i><a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ); ?>"><?php echo get_the_author(); ?></a></li>
						<li><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>
						<?php if ( ('d M  y') == get_option( 'date_format' ) ) : ?>
						<?php echo get_the_date('F d ,Y'); ?>
						<?php else : ?>
						<?php echo get_the_date(); ?>
						<?php endif; ?>
						</li>
						<li><i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i><?php comments_popup_link( '0', '1', '%', '', '-'); ?></li>
					</ul>
				</div>
			</div>
			</div>
			<?php  endwhile;
			else : ?>
			<div class="col-md-4 col-sm-12 scrollimation scale-in d2 pull-left">
			<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper">
				<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase">
					<img  alt="Enigma" src="<?php echo WL_TEMPLATE_DIR_URI ?>/images/wall/img(11).jpg">
					<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_overlay">
						<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_overlay_inner ">
							<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_wrapper_showcase_icons">
								<a title="Enigma" href="#"><i class="fa fa-link"></i></a>
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<h2><a href="#"><?php _e('NO Post','weblizar'); ?></a></h2>

				<div class="enigma_tags">
					<?php _e('Tags :&nbsp;','weblizar'); ?>
					<a href="#"><?php _e('Bootstrap','weblizar'); ?></a>
					<a href="#"><?php _e('HTML5','weblizar'); ?></a>

				</div>
				<p><?php _e('Add You Post To show post here..','weblizar'); ?></p>
				<a href="#" class="enigma_blog_read_btn"><i class="fa fa-plus-circle"></i><?php _e('Read More','weblizar'); ?></a>
				<div class="enigma_blog_thumb_footer">
					<ul class="enigma_blog_thumb_date">
						<li><i class="fa fa-user"></i><a href="#"><?php _e('By Admin','weblizar'); ?></a></li>
						<li><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php _e(' November 9 2013','weblizar'); ?></li>
						<li><i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i><a href="#"><?php _e('10','weblizar'); ?></a></li>
					</ul>
				</div>
			</div>
			</div>
		<?php endif; ?>

	</div>
	<div class="enigma_carousel-navi">
				<div id="port-next" class="enigma_carousel-prev" ><i class="fa fa-arrow-left"></i></div>
				<div id="port-prev" class="enigma_carousel-next" ><i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></div>
	</div>
	</div>
</div>

    Save the changes.
    To set number of posts set it at $posts_count =6;
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter fl8rmaus

    (@fl8rmaus)

    Thank you so much for your reply! I have been swamped and haven’t had time to implement, but if it is just doing this I am confident I can do it.

    I did not want you to think I did not appreciate the answer. ??

    Thanks again

    Melissa

    Hi,

    Most Welcome.

    Thanks.

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