Lazy Load turned off

  • We’ve been sending out Daily posts from lightinnerlight.com for several years. On July 14th, they stopped displaying images from those posts. That’s around the time I installed the Shift8 CDN and AutoOptimize–in order to improve test MailChimp says it is because RSS was running Lazy Load. Since then, the settings in the AutoOptimize plugin for Lazy Load were turned off, since it interfered with the display of images sent in the RSS via a MailChimp campaign. Since the settings were disabled, it’s still being applied to the code. Mailchimp recommended that I reaching out to WordPress. MailChimp tech senior says: “We are seeing the issue within multiple test accounts, which points to an issue within the feed, and not within your account.” MailChimp wants me to check with WordPress to figure out why Lazy Load is still being applied–even with the settings turned off. Once it’s no longer in the code, if I’m still having trouble, MailChimp said they could take a look from there.

    It’s hosted on hostmonster.com.

    Do you think that Shift8CDN could be causing the problem?

    Also, we are using ShortPixel to compress images. I wonder if that adds Lazy Load.

    If you look at the code in lightinnerlight.com/feed, you will see today’s image and the class=”lazy-load vc_single_image-img attachment-thumbnail”

    <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6"><div class="vc_column-inner"><div class="wpb_wrapper">
	<div  class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center">
		
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			<div class="vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey layzr-bg"><img width="500" height="250" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 500 250'%2F%3E" data-src="https://cbf03gdwdu3f.wpcdn.shift8cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sunrise-1756274_640-500x250.jpg" class="lazy-load vc_single_image-img attachment-thumbnail" alt="" data-srcset="https://cbf03gdwdu3f.wpcdn.shift8cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sunrise-1756274_640-500x250.jpg 500w, https://cbf03gdwdu3f.wpcdn.shift8cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sunrise-1756274_640-250x125.jpg 250w, https://cbf03gdwdu3f.wpcdn.shift8cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sunrise-1756274_640.jpg 640w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px"  data-dt-location="https://lightinnerlight.com/the-circle-of-life/sunrise-1756274_640/" /></div>
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    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by ingenuity.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • The RSS feed is just picking up on what your website is telling it while trying to build summaries…

    It looks like you are using Visual Composer and/or the Ultimate VC Addons plugin. I’d kill those plugins or kill them all long enough to look at the feed then… but that system may have munged the theme also so you might need to swap themes for a good test.

    I didn’t see anything else but several plugins do offer Lazy Load so it’s very possible you killed Lazy Load in one place only to still have it enabled elsewhere… Jetpack is another place Lazy Load can be found.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by JNashHawkins.
    Thread Starter ingenuity

    (@ingenuity)

    @jnashhawkins, Thank you for your advice. I deactivated the plugins you recommended along with several others that were not needed. I checked ShortPixel, Shift8 CDN, and W3 Supercache and none was using Lazy Load. Jetpack is not in use. The theme has been in use for years and the images only began to not display on July 14th, around when I installed the Shift8 CDN and AutoOptimize. I just now purged the cache on the server and the browser but I still see Lazy Load in the /feed code. Could it be that the posts that were published when Lazy Load was active can’t have the lazy load removed? I’m still stumped.

    Well, it’s time to turn off all the plugins and swap out the theme to something generic then. Swap your theme for Twenty Seventeen and rename the plugins directory by adding either BAK or 1234 to the name… doesn’t matter which as long as you’ll see it. You may need to do the rename via FTP or the hosting control panel’s file manager.

    If there’s a plugin in the ‘MU’ directory you’ll need to rename that also.

    Look at the site then look at the feed itself. If cache is clean then all that code detritus on your website should be gone and the Lazy Load won’t be there in the feed.

    If it’s clean then put the theme back… If that’s a child theme of the Dt-the7 theme then put the parent back first. Look at the site for the detritus to return and check the feed… visit a few pages, observer carefully, and check the feed. If it’s okay then put back the child and check things again.

    If it’s clean then rename the plugins back starting with the MU plugins and then rename the individual plugins in the main plugin directory and rename the plugins directory back.

    Check things and start enabling plugins one at a time until problem comes back.

    Else, if the first part of above, the generic theme and disabled plugins, doesn’t work then you’ll need to revert back to your backup from just before this CDN and AutoOptimize was installed.

    Let us know if you need more help.

    Thread Starter ingenuity

    (@ingenuity)

    Ugh, this looks like it will be a lot of work. Thank you for your detailed explanation of what must be done. Would you please explain: How can I know if/when the problem has been resolved? Is it simply by looking for the word, “lazy” in the code seen in the lightinnerlight.com/feed ? And, if it does not appear, it was successful?

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