Header Refreshes During Every Page Load
 

I've noticed that all of the sites I've developed using ATA reload the header in addition to the page content on every screen refresh. Is this normal? On other sites, I've noticed only the content below the header refreshes. I am getting a white blank screen every time I switch between pages. Thanks.

Do you have multiple header images?
What version?
What is the URL?
What are the theme header options set to?

The sites are a bit different yet they refresh the same. Here are the specifics:

http://sweetboutiquellc.com
single header image
wp version: 3.2.1
ata version: 3.6.7
theme header options:
* blog title "no"
* show logo image "yes"
* tagline "yes"

http://muzzproductions.com
rotating header image
wp version: 3.2.1
ata version: 3.6.1
theme header options:
* custom header

http://muzzmarketing.com
single header image
wp version: 3.2.1
ata version: 3.6.1
theme header options:
* custom header
this site is also very slow...


I do have one other site where the header remains steady during reloads.

http://laubertool.com
single header image
wp version: 3.0.4
ata version: 3.6.1
theme header options:
* show logo image "yes"
* show blog title "no"
* show blog tagline "yes"

Please let me know if you need additional info. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm sorry I meant header image options :o

Suuuuuuuuure. Now you tell me.

Is there an easy way for me to share this info with you? I tried a screen shot of the options page but the attachment was too large...

OK -- here's the requested info. I've also attached a pdf in case you can't read this. Hoping there's a fix to this issue...

LT SB MP MM
Rotate header images w/ Java 0 0 3 0
Sort header images? Sort Sort Sort Sort
Fade images with Java? 0 0 4 0
Preload header images? Yes Yes No Yes
Make image clickable? No No No Yes
Header image height 150 150 251 245
Header image alignment TC TC TC TC
Overlay blog title? No No No No
Overlay blog tagline No No No No

LT = http://laubertool.com DEFALT SETTINGS
SB = http://sweetboutiquellc.com DEFAULT SETTINGS
MP = http://muzzproductions.com
MM = http://muzzmarketing.com

ALL SITES SHOW REFRESH HEADER ON EVERY PAGE LOAD EXCEPT LAUBER TOOL.

What are the file sizes of the different images

I am not using a header image on two of the sites that still have the refresh problem so not sure image size is the problem. The images are the same size as the header area for the sites that do have header images.

OK -- went back and looked at the actual file sizes for the images and they are all relatively small (under 100kb). Anything else I can check? Thanks...

I'll take a look later today, I've been camping and am going home this morning

I have a quick question. I took your code below from one of your older posts on how to add a widget area to one page:
<?php if (is_page(21)) { bfa_widget_area('name=My header widget area'); } ?>

I am trying to do the opposite, i.e., omit one page from the code in my header. Is there away of doing that?

Code is: <?php if (function_exists("easing_slider")){ easing_slider(); }; ?>.

I essentially want the slider to disappear on one of my pages only. Any help appreciated!!

Thanks in advance.

SH

if NOT page 21 and easy slider exists then ........
so it will fail on page 21

I'm seeing the header refresh for all the sites. Threre are some times that it may look like it didn't refresh, but I can swap to another page and see it.

this is one of those things that there are so many variables that it will be impossible to figure out
what browser? what apps running on your machine? what is the speed of the cpu? how much memory? internet connection speed? How many hops does it take to get to the server, what else is running on the server...

It only happens for my wp sites running ATA. That's why I think it's related. It does not happen with any other sites that I reference. So I don't think the items you referenced below are the issue. Has to be something either with WP or ATA. Any other recommendations on what I can try??? Doesn't look professional to me...

I just went to all four sites you reference and it happens on all four when I visit them.

Here is a link to the issue in the Wordpress.org forum talking about it http://wordpress.org/support/topic/p...tbe-or-swf-why

The web page is being resent and a split second delay can cause the blink

Thank you so much. That worked perfectly!

SH

I went ahead and changed the theme from ATA to Twenty Ten and the page load problem continued so must be a wordpress issue. I looked at the link you forwarded and at least now I know it's happening on other sites as well. Just wish WP provided a better response! Thanks for your help on this...

OK -- making progress. Just found a discussion on WP that discusses this issue.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/h...4#post-2335177

The issue has to do with the latest version of wordpress. Please take a look at their comment below and the direction to add code to the function.php file. Will this change work for ATA? I did try to cut and paste the code in the functions.php file but it didn't seem to do anything. Don't know if I put it in the right place.

"For anyone using jQuery Tools in conjunction with a WordPress website, you'll notice that WP 3.2 causes problems. This is because WP 3.2 automatically loads jQuery 1.6.1, whereas WP 3.1 loaded jQuery 1.4.4.

If you've upgraded to WP 3.2 and need a quick fix, try adding this to your functions.php:

Put the code at the end of functions.php right before the final '?>' on line 1045. so you currently have
and you will change it to
I still get a flash, but it is much less noticeable

Well, the functions.php file looked a little differently on my end. Here's where I added the code. I didn't have any luck with this URL (laubertool.com). Still a long flash. I actually upgraded this one to 3.2.1 this morning. It previously did not have the flash and that's how I knew it had to be connected to the version. Let me know if I should change anything below. Thanks.

}
add_custom_image_header('header_style', 'admin_header_style');

register_default_headers( array(
'header6' => array(
'url' => '%s/images/header/header6.jpg',
'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/header/header6-thumb.jpg',
'description' => __( 'Raspberry', 'twentyten' )
),
'IMG_1479' => array(
'url' => '%s/images/header/IMG_1479.jpg',
'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/header/IMG_1479-thumb.jpg',
'description' => __( 'Apple Blossom', 'twentyten' )
),
'IMG_1496.jpg' => array(
'url' => '%s/images/header/IMG_1496.jpg',
'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/header/IMG_1496-thumb.jpg',
'description' => __( 'Spring', 'twentyten' )
)
) );

*/
// Downgrade to jQuery 1.4.4 in order to support jQuery Tools
function downgrade_jquery() {
global $wp_scripts;

// We want to use version 1.4.4 of jQuery, but it may break something in the admin so we only load it on the actual site.
if ( !is_admin() ) :
wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', false, '1.4.4');
endif;
}
add_action( 'wp_head', downgrade_jquery() );

?>

it looks like you made some changes to functions.php.

What are these changes for and where did you get them?

I actually didn't make any changes other than the jquery change that I just added. Otherwise, I haven't touched this before...

sorry, that code is in Functions.php, but it is not at the bottom - that is commented out code at line 956 and the file s 1045 lines long

Here's what I did:

Went to Appearances, Editor
Selected functions.php file
Scrolled to bottom of file
Inserted the new code

I don't see any line numbers accessing the functions.php file this way. Is there another way to do it?

Thanks.

is what you posted the end of the file? cause if so, the entire file is not there. You can do a select all and copy it and paste it into a text editor to see the line numbers.

I checked two of my sites which use ATA and both have only 935 lines of code in the functions.php file. Don't know why info would be missing. I believe I removed the ATA and wordpress line from the footer on one but that would have been the only change...

What version of Atahualpa?

Both sites are 3.6.1

well you did say http://sweetboutiquellc.com was at 3.6.7 and I'm always looking at the latest code.

Yes that is the code for 3.6.1 and it should work. You can check by looking at the source of the page and checking which version it is using: the 1.4 or 1.6 version

Yes, that was one of my sites, but thought I'd test it on a less active one. Sorry about that.

I added the code, and it fixed the problem for Firefox. But still having the white flash on the other browsers. Do you know if I need to add the code in multiple places? Or perhaps it's a bit different for the other browsers?

Juggledad's development 101 - lesson 1

when making changes to a site, make sure all caching plugging are deactivated and the caches flushed so you can see the changes right away. Once the site is as you want it, you can turn them back on

Thanks for the advice! However, for this particular site, I have no caching plugins installed. I did clear the cache of each individual browser, but that didn't seem to help...

which site, the two 3.6.1 sites showed w3total cache in the source
muzzproduction and muzzmarketing

I tested on laubertool.com since that is the least active site I have.

I thought you said that is the site that it stays steady?

Prior to my upgrading to the latest version of WP, yes it was steady.

Well that site is getting the 1.4 version so I think you are in the same boat as everyone else and will have to hope WP fixes this

I have posted to the forum but no response. Do you know of a better way to reach out to Wordpress?

you might want to look at their bug reporting system, see if there had posted about it

Not so much a solution as a workaround to at least make the white flash less annoying.
1. I found this suggestion here:
2. I tried several places within the Atahualpa file structure and finally found that if I took a portion of his suggestion (just the color) and put it in css.php, just before:
I now get a flash that is the same color as the background on my toolbar, so it, while not fixing the problem, makes it less annoying; at least to me.
The actual snippet I put there was:

Hope it helps...