michaelborger

Yes, it’s a theme problem — changed themes and it popped up there in the right-hand widgets. Think there’s a line of code somewhere we could add to css or functions to make it work?

Yes, I was editing post and page when I checked — wasn’t there.

Tried disabling all plugins but still no change.

I’ll check the theme and install. Thanks.

Correct – it does not appear as an option in the “Screen Options” area at the top of the page. WordPress version is 3.3.1

Thanks for checking this out for me – can’t believe there were so many open div’s.

Still looking for help. I just want to make the name and email fields required so someone can’t click “Download” without filling them out. A simple pop-up message “Please enter your name/email before continuing.”

Thanks in advance for your help. I’m sure this is an easy one for your pros out there.

Thanks for the tips. I would think there have to be some free ones out there.

I already own Genesis and the AgentPress child theme. Maybe I can use that….

I went all in with Genesis and the AgentPress child theme.

https://bigrockinvestments.com

Working out great so far.

I had the Google Libraries plugin installed. I deactivated the plugin and the WP Cycle plugin started working again.

Still having trouble.

In the contact form itself, I have:

<p>[submit class:buttonct “Send”]

In the style.css, I have:

/*Changing Background Color of Send Button for Contact7 Plugin*/
.buttonct {
background-color:#d60000;
}

URL is:
https://bigrockinvestments.com/sell-your-house-in-hawaii/

What am I doing wrong?

Ok thanks, but I must be doing something wrong. Here’s the very end of my style.css:

/*Changing Background Color of Send Button for Contact7 Plugin*/
.button {background-color:red;}

My form has this for the Send button line:

<p>[submit class:button “Send”]

…. ?

Thanks for the link.

Regarding the Send button, I’m not too up to speed on id’s and classes just yet. I don’t know how to establish a class or id elsewhere in the CSS to call to it from the [send]. Or at least I don’t know — yet. Isn’t there just a line in one of the plugin files that has the appropriate color hex code that I can change? That would be easiest for me right now.

A) Got it. I assume you’re just referring to general working practices.

B) Yes, but I think this domain probably gets 90% of the traffic of all that I have. Most of my domains are just 1-2 page splash sites with few, short duration visitors. However, there are 6 other WP sites that, while getting only maybe 10-30 visitors a day, might still be using resources equally on the shared GD server. Not sure how that works. Maybe if I kill them it would speed up this site.

C) & D) I’m not familiar with these terms or how I’d get my hands on an unused node in my GD hosting plan. I don’t have a dedicated server.

Found the “cmsvoteup” – it was in the Facebook Like Box plugin that I disabled, so that should be a non-issue as I don’t have any other social media plugins enabled.

Here’s the actual code from the plugin:
$img_live_dir = ‘https://www.cmsvoteup.com/images/power_by_2x2.gif&#8217;;
$html = “<img src=\”$img_live_dir\” border=\”0\”/>“;

However, I might try enabling it again and just stripping out these two lines.

Thanks as always. I now have a Google Page Speed of 96/100 when run in Firefox. I disabled the Facebook Like Box as noted above and also added the two items to my .htaccess as described here: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-add-far-future-expires-headers-to-your-wordpress-site-1533

I still have a 91 page / 82 yslow in GTMetrix, so that will need to be addressed. Not quite as rosy a rating as Google Page Speed, but I’m better than where I was yesterday.

I will try to hunt down that rogue cmsvoteu as I’ve no clue on that right now. Perhaps it’s part of the Genesis theme or AgentPress 2.0 child theme.

Thanks for the tip on Smush It. I’ll go back into Photoshop and try to export smaller, cleaner files and replace the existing ones.

I guess my HTML code is old in my right header and footers – I’ll go back to HTML school and see what the fuss is with my open and closing tags.

I understand about reducing the # and size of HTTP requests, but I need to keep the functionality I have. I may be removing the aweber form on the homepage to the right of the slider and placing an embedded non-autostarting Youtube video in there, but it’s still an external call.

The strange thing that still bugs me, though, is that I have delays even when I’m working strictly in the admin panel, going between posts, pages and stuff. That alone tells me it’s a hosting issue with GoDaddy. Maybe their guy was right in that my shared Linux hosting plan can’t handle my 40ish domains, even if only a few are WP and most are just 1-2 static pages….

Anyway, I will keep pressing along and update here accordingly. Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks to you both. I’m continuing to work on this.

1. I disabled the Facebook Like Box plugin that was loading on every page. That caused a decent uptick in ratings on GTMetrix.com (now Page Speed 91, YSlow 82). Too bad, b/c I like that social media presence but it’s not worth the trade-off. I can put a static image there instead and link it to my FB page.

2. I don’t know what “cmsvoteu” is — sorry. Can you please explain?

3. Disabling AddThis did not do much to improve performance.

4. I’ve removed two images from the WP-Cycle slider plugin on the homepage. There are now 6 images at about 50k apiece average.

5. I’ve set up my W3 Total Cache options according to https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-install-and-setup-w3-total-cache-for-beginners/

6. GTMetrix.com Page Speed recommendations:
— Parallelize downloads across hostnames
— Specify image dimensions (lists 7 graphics but all are small)
GTMetrix.com YSlow recommendations:
— Add Expires headers (lists 8 components although I’ve already turned that on in W3 Total Cache; however these 8 are on other domains like fonts.googleapis.com, forms.aweber.com and connect.facebook.net, so I assume I can’t do anything about those)
— Use cookie-free domains (lists 14 image files on my domain – not sure how I can modify that)
— Make fewer HTTP requests

7. It appears that about all the errors found on validator.w3.org refer to missing tags in my upper right header and in the four footer elements. They look fine to me but since I’m not a coder, maybe I’m using old HTML.

8. Re: gzip. I’m using the Smush-It image compressing plugin…..? Should I export from PSD to PNG instead of JPG? Not use Smush-It?

Thanks again for all the assistance. Greatly appreciated.