Ghost in the Machine? WordPress
- SOLVED
On our site:
http://174.121.38.34/~alowe/
Every now and then when a page is taking too long to load, one of two things will happen:
1) the submenu/dropdown menu will appear below the main menu. Just for a couple of seconds. Then when the page has loaded, it disappears (since I'm not currently using the submenu).
2) if you're on the [[LINK href="http://174.121.38.34/~alowe/store/"]]shopping cart[[/LINK]] and a page takes too long to load, you'll see text for a couple of seconds that says "Its a great way to find information" which I believe is the text this theme uses for the search field. But I don't have the search field on the site.
I need someone to diagnose why those are appearing and more important how to prevent them from appearing.
Thanks
Answers (2)
Denzel Chia answers:
Hi,
That is not your sub menu, that is categories, archives and search form.
I had login into your site and hide them.
<em><strong>Check if your menu is fixed.</strong></em>
As for the shopping cart, it is zen cart, not wordpress.
Sorry I do not know how to fix zen cart.
Thanks.
Denzel
c a comments:
How did you hide them please?
Denzel Chia comments:
Hi,
The explanation is in my email to you.
Thanks.
Peter Michael answers:
If you don't want to display certain things on a page either remove them completely or add an inline css declaration instead of adding it to the stylesheet file, something like:
<p style="display:none;">Do not display</p>
Like this the browser doesn't have to wait for the declarations from the external stylesheet.
c a comments:
Well, I'd want the submenu to be able to become active if any sub-levels are used in the future. I just don't want it appearing when I have nothing on the sub-levels like now.
Peter Michael comments:
I see you are using categories as your menu. Do you make use of the custom menus in the wp-admin? If yes, just define menu areas using [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus"]]register_nav_menus[[/LINK]] and activate them once you are ready.
c a comments:
Not sure what you mean. The menu items are added to the topmenu via widgets.
Many of the menu items are simply pages.
Peter Michael comments:
You should use the new menu system introduced in WP3, not widgets. See [[LINK href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus"]]http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus[[/LINK]] for example.
The text "its a great way to find information" is appearing on the front page (not found on the shop page). Its declared via javascript to the search input field (blur, focus).
c a comments:
can I just comment out the search input field or something since we're not using it? the text appears randomly at times.
Peter Michael comments:
Yes, use <!-- <div id="search"> ... </div> --> and it will be hidden. But best would be to remove it completely if you are sure you don't use it.