thehobbyblogger

Same slowdown for me since updating as well. Disabling share counts helps, but I’m going to have look for another plugin. Shame.

And the long submit times were due to the Simple Share Buttons plugin, not Google Forms.

Figured it out. Activated an unmodified version of my theme and the text boxes worked in Firefox. The problem had to do with some custom CSS I had in my theme’s stylesheet to style the form’s input boxes.

This is the culprit code:

input.ss-q-short {
	width: 350px;
	height: 30px;
}

I was setting the height of the short input box to 30px, but my theme by default inserts 16px of padding to all input, select, and textarea elements.

I just removed the vertical padding using “padding: 0 16px;” and all is well. Funny how Chrome and Safari are smart enough to make sure the text is unobscured, but not Firefox. Oh well, bad coding on my part.

Thanks for all your help Mike!

Also deactivated all plugins except Google Forms, and it didn’t fix the text box problem in Firefox.

Just filled it out.

Thanks!

Thanks for responding.

I don’t have any problems with any WP dashboard forms. Also, the Contact Form 7 form on the blog’s Contact page also seems to work correctly.

This Google Forms page on the same blog also exhibits the same issues.

https://www.makerspace.gardenstreetacademy.org/3dsb-3d-printing-program-santa-barbara-students-teachers/3dsb-submission-page/

I’m also on WP 4.1.

This all has to do with WordPress’s new theme customizer, which overrides WordPress’s older Appearance -> Header settings page.

Go to Appearance > Themes

Make sure the “Manage Themes” tab is selected.

Next to your current theme, click the “Customize” link.

Expand “Site Title & Tagline”, and uncheck the “Display Header Text” box.