Main ‘/events/’ page very slow and interacts poorly with several other plugins

[Rick Maggio]

I’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest and have issues with the main /events/’ page. First, the load times on page are extremely high. I have the plugin running on two different hosting platforms:
– http://www.walkaboutwellington.com/events/
– http://69.195.124.111/~bestpen2/walkaboutwellington/

I realize that shared hosting isn’t ideal. However, the /events/ page seems to have performance issues that no other event templates have (others load in a fairly reasonable amount of time).

Second, the /events/ page also breaks several other plugins (no other event pages do). Please see http://www.walkaboutwellington.com/events/ and note that:
– My background images break (I used Background Manager 1.2.2)
– Widgets appear that shouldn’t (I use Dynamic Widgets 1..4)

Thanks in advance for all your hard work.
-rick

[Barry]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for getting in touch.

I realize that shared hosting isn’t ideal. However, the /events/ page seems to have performance issues that no other event templates have (others load in a fairly reasonable amount of time).

Behind the scenes a lot of database queries are being used to build this page. We do want our plugin to be as snappy as possible and the team are actually looking at this issue to see if they can reduce the number of queries (and if they can do this then it potentially will make quite a difference).

So do bear with us as we are actively investigating the best way forward here.

– My background images break (I used Background Manager 1.2.2)
– Widgets appear that shouldn’t (I use Dynamic Widgets 1..4)

Unfortunately we can’t guarantee compatibility with every plugin or theme out there – but in both these cases it may be worth playing with the Events > Settings > Display options and switching from Default Events Template to Default Page Template or vice versa.

Changing the level of styling from Full Tribe Styles to a more basic level may also be worth trying (though this may also mean you need to add new style rules to keep things presentable).

[Rick Maggio]

Thanks Barry,I appreciate the feedback. Some of the other templates do work but I’d have to give-up my right widget areas which are important to me. Thanks though. -rick

[Barry]

OK, if I’m understanding you correctly then it sounds like the best path forward would be using the Default Events Template and customizing it (you can learn more about the template override process here) and basically bring it into line with other “native” templates by adding those divs and other pieces of markup that it might be missing.

It’s hard for me to guide you on this one because the end goal is to make it mesh not just with your theme but a number of other plugins.

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