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Thanks for checking. OK, that’s reassuring.

I thought I’d too try Safari, but strangely Safari seems to have been removed from the app store.

But I tried two other browsers – Puffin Free and FastBrowser. The slideshow works in both.

I can only conclude that the problem is only with Opera i.e. the slideshow doesn’t work on some versions of Opera.

Ah, it looks like the functions.php gets overwritten on update only in the main theme folder and not the child theme folder.

So the above solution works. Just posting this update for anyone else who comes across this thread.

The code does remove the admin bar (which I don’t mind). But it does seem to make changes to some fonts displayed on the page. I’ll need to look into that a bit more.

Hi, thanks for checking that.

I did clear cookies, history, everything, but this ipad is an older ipad, is running an older version of iOS and can’t be updated any further for RAM and other reasons. It therefore uses Opera Mini 7.0.5 (the latest and most up-to-date version that it can run).

I know it’s always been a case that browsers move on and all that, but this is hardly IE 6.0 we’re talking about here ?? It’s an ipad I bought less than three years ago and there are several million like it around today (the owners of whom might visit my site).

Hi mbrsolution, thanks for your reply. Sorry,I haven’t tried a smartphone (I don’t own one).

Does this link take you to the page with the slider?

Thanks for your reply.

>>44KB isn’t a large amount of data.
I beg to differ. Especially when I take the time to optimise even 1 kb images.

>>This might help,
Thanks, I had found that page prior to starting this thread but it didn’t make sense. They lost me at the first line, “Try deregistering that stylesheet”

There is some code provided on the page but it doesn’t seem like it is simply something you stick in functions.php…and it doesn’t work anyway, according to the poster himself

(Besides, doesn’t the functions.php simply get overwritten when there’s an update, and is it not the standard advice to put changes in child themes?)

Thanks for opening that article, Kim. It’s a useful recipe and I do have a dedicated server but I’m concerned about the RAM usage.

Editing htaccess etc., is not a problem but I don’t want to start with a restriction on file size. There may be larger pdfs that we make accessible to members and I don’t want that slowing the site down for new potential customers coming to our site.

Thanks for your response and action though. Much appreciated.

Hi lilaeamedia, thanks for your quick reply.

I’ve had some success, but to be honest, I didn’t find your plugin made the job any easier than simply editing the original theme CSS.

I’m aware of that, thanks. But if Google says site speed matters for ranking … and it adds that this js in the header is slowing my site down, I’m not in a position to say, “Stuff you, Google!”

ok, thanks. I’ll have to disable it for now.

Actually, he has some pretty good documentation and have you seen this: https://kb.cf7skins.com/styling-contact-form-7-forms/

Given that the author is so proactive with support you could have asked for help before giving him a two star.

Sorted, thank you.

Thanks, essaysnark. It’s useful to know there’s a solution. It’s disappointing that the solution is available only to paid members (as the explanation at your link suggests).

It’s a nice plugin for the price ($0) but given that this essential function is behind the pay wall I’m going to delete this plugin and look for something else.

Not that I want to save a few dollars, mind you, but I need to test something thoroughly, and with my own customization, before I can use it on my commercial site. A plugin needs to first pass my basic requirements before I go ahead and pay for it and this one, unfortunately, doesn’t.

I was tempted to leave a negative review to warn other users who are likely to hit the same problem, but I’ll desist because, to be fair, this plugin only claims the ability to restrict access to “posts” and “pages”.

Good question. I came looking for the same thing. I’ve got links to pdf files in my posts that I don’t want non-members to have access to but it seems these files are stored publicly so anyone can access them if they know the URL (or a member has gone and posted the URL publicly somewhere).

Does this plugin protect JUST the post rather than the media used in the post and downloads that are linked to in the post?

Thanks for your quick reply. I installed it again and tried again, but it still doesn’t work for me. I ticked both the boxes in the settings screen. And I did use the screen options drop down ??

Then I thought it was the tiny toggle link in the settings page to turn off comments on EXISTING pages. So I tried that as well.

I don’t know where the fault is, but it just doesn’t work for me, sorry. I hate to be mean about the one star but I’ve spent a lot of time on this and couldn’t get it to work … so I’m moving on.

Note: The message goes away if debug is turned to false. Does this mean there’s a problem with WP straight out of the box?