Deffering Breaks Nivo Slider

  • Resolved Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    The Nivo Slider that comes part of the mantra theme on my site broke when I added this plugin: https://answers-in-reason.com/

    I added it after adding a number of other plugins that was supposed to help page speed but seemed to not work fully, eg some scripts that were to be deffered were not getting deffered, some combining was not being combined etc.

    This plugin seems to have helped with that but has broken the Nivo Slider.

    I added: jquery.min.js and jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js into the exclusion area without much avail.

    I now can no longer access the drop downs either.
    I try to click the down arrows but the drop downs will not work for some reason.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Davidian.
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  • Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    I’ve also noticed Jetpacks “Related Posts” no longer loads.

    Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    Worked out the issue with the drop downs, if you turn the deffering in in the plugin, you can no longer use the drop downs in the options.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Davidian.
    Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    Another bit of information

    Even though I have turned your plugin on with Deffering as the previous plugin i was using didn’t seem to do the trick, I am still getting this notification from GTMetrix:

    401.2KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.

    Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    So the select scripts you don’t want to defer thing doesn’t work either

    it just has pasted this line at the top of my page: jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js https://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/photon/photon.js https://answers-in-reason.com/wp-content/themes/mantra/js/frontend.js

    So I have removed those lines from the plugin, and they are still there.

    The worst thing is, if I deactivate this plugin my site runs twice as slow as it did before I turned it on.

    I feel like I am stuck with either having a broken front page or extremely slow site.

    Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    I’ve had to remove the slider, still cant get that annoying text off the pages.

    I notice lots of unanswered queries in this forum.. is this plugin unsupported?

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, the plugin is still supported if not there would not be an updated version out. However the developer must be busy with other projects. Remember this is a free plugin.

    Kind regards

    Thread Starter Davidian

    (@the-odd-duck)

    Whilst it is “free” one has to imagine the developer is working towards an end goal of providing a service to people.

    Perhaps if he fixed this plugin and answered queries he might do better.

    Imagine if you were given a free chocolate bar but it gave you a stomach upset.. whilst you might appreciate the free bit in the start, you’d want the chocolate sorted out right?

    At the very least an acknowledgement from the person that made the chocolate

    If the developer is too busy to provide support, then I don’t think the plugin should be active.

    Plugin Support mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, I understand your issue. However it might be more related to your theme. Have you spoken to the theme developers about this issue?

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