Comments on: Watch page load times when using WordPress social bookmark plugins

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:30:26 +0000

Hey Chris, I suggest you contact Josh at his website at sexybookmarks.shareaholic.com to get support.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:23:30 +0000

I am running 3.2.3.1 and having a problem with very slow load. Your Plugin is awesome but I had to deactivate it because it is way to slow. I have a number of other Plugins running that may be causing the problem. I would like to really like to reactivate your Plugin.

Could you please take a look and let me know if there is a fix for the slow load.

http://www.horseawho.com

Thanks

By: Jason Gegere

Jason Gegere — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:54:10 +0000

What would be the best method to add SexyBookmarks to WordPress pages in addition to posts?

By: Techie Talks

Techie Talks — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:01:02 +0000

I was once a great fan to this great plugin but sad to say when updated it to the latest version it doesn’t display on the site.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:00:53 +0000

Thank you so much for your quick answer Josh.
This is much appreciated.

I just created my own sprite and it seems to work and should the new feature work properly then I don’t even have to worry when I need to add one ore more social icons.

But anyway I am looking foward to the new plugin.
Great work Josh.

Have a nice day.
Daniel

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:11:18 +0000

Hey Daniel,

This is Josh of SexyBookmarks… We had to revert the plugin back to an older version because the sprite generator wasn’t working properly for everyone…

So the current version of SexyBookmarks doesn’t have the feature. However, we plan to release the new version (v3.2) on Monday, and it will indeed have the new sprite generator feature included.

Sorry!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:22:30 +0000

Hi guys,

nice article Jan.
I also like Josh’s plugin but it seems to me that you are still loading a >200kb image sprite when the site is loaded. And maybe I am blind but I cannot find a spritegen folder in the plugins folder. Or I don’t see how to activate the Dynamic Sprite Generator feature for the plugin.

Regards,
Daniel

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:21:56 +0000

Hey Jan… You should be able to see my email address via this comment… Would you mind emailing me?

I have the dynamic sprite generation function working and tested on my end… Would you mind beta testing it on your end to see if it is satisfactory?

Thanks!

By: Xamuel

Xamuel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:34:05 +0000

Oh my gosh, you indirectly helped me sooo much… I didn’t have any idea that that “Site Performance” tool existed in WT… Wow, this is going to improve my blog’s load times a LOT!

I think I’ll join you in waiting for sexybookmarks to release the next version before installing.

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Sexy Got Sluggish | SexyBookmarks — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:38:08 +0000

[...] weren't sure how to go about finding a solution. However, Jan over at Trick77 recently wrote an article warning users to be wary of SexyBookmarks due to the slow load times and massive image sizes… This really lit a fire under our butts and [...]

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:45:00 +0000

Josh, thank you for your feedback. I’ll be the first to use SexyBookmarks again once this is sorted out.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:30:21 +0000

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the honest review… I’m aware of this issue, and trying to find a viable solution that doesn’t just replace the image size lag with php script runtime lag…

See, the image sprite was an excellent idea when the plugin was first launched, as it only had 15 or 20 sites to choose from. A single image with 15 or 20 icons was still quicker than loading up 15 or 20 separate images… However, now that we have nearly 80 in a single sprite that’s almost 6,000px wide… It’s beginning to get a bit out of control.

One issue that we can correct immediately is the sexy-trans.png image… To this day, I still don’t understand what exactly made me make the background image as a sprite… Nobody is ever going to use more than one background image anyway, so there’s no need to load more than what the user selected to begin with! lol

Even though you weren’t happy with the performance of the plugin, it’s actually refreshing once in a while to get an honest point of view rather than flocks of people singing it’s praises… Helps to grow it in the right direction.