Can I buy you a magicians hat? ??
Your shortcode worked nearly perfectly! Pagination now takes 1.5 seconds to load a page, which is pretty much the load time of any other page that is not media-related. The site is peppy again!
You mentioned that the shortcode might not work perfectly, and I agree, there are a few simple bugs which I’ve spent some time working to diagnose:
– orderby=’date DESC’ appears to not work. I’ve switched it from ASC to DESC with the same results — The newest images are on the last page.
– A number of the pages had blank entries, which is weird. I traced the problem down to my lack of specifying the mime type. I tried post_mime_type=’image’ and it does not pass the parameter.
– Is there a correct syntax for videos? Since the video thumbnails were what is missing on the pages without the post_mime_type shortcode, I can only guess the shortcode parameters change for videos somehow. We have rtcamp’s “FFMPEG Encoder” plugin installed that does all the video heavy lifting and encoding directly on our web site server.
My sincere appreciation for your speedy help, David!
<3 Alexa
