Slider takes 7-9 seconds to load

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Hello, I’m having problems with the nivoslider loading slowly, can you help?

I’ve got 3 images (128kb, 76kb, and 88kb) and the slider takes up to 9 seconds to load while displaying a loading animation. Is there anything that can be done to improve load time?

I’m currently using WordPress 5.1.1 and no other plugins installed, except for wordpress defaults.

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An update: I found that the slider is inserting a first black slide before my slides are loaded. I have loaded 3 slides but the slider shows 4 slides to load. The first slide is empty, causing the slider to look like it is loading.

How can I remove this phantom first slide?

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FINAL UPDATE – SOLVED

I foudn that in jquery.nivo.slider.js there was an IF statement to auto-set the start slide, but it wasn’t working for me.

original, starting line 58:
// Set startSlide
if(settings.startSlide > 0){
if(settings.startSlide >= vars.totalSlides) { settings.startSlide = vars.totalSlides – 1; }

My solution:
// Set startSlide
if(settings.startSlide > 0){
if(settings.startSlide >= vars.totalSlides) { settings.startSlide = vars.totalSlides;}

You might want to update the code for the fixit pro theme package with this fix.

[alexathemes]

Thanks for the update. We can do that.

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Well, I was wrong. I’m still getting a slide 0 to appear in my slides and I don’t know how to prevent that. Any ideas?

[alexathemes]

Hi

Please send your site URL and the login details to support@alexathemes.net so we can check the backend.

Thank You

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Problem Resoled for real this time.

Something was getting pushed into the element that created the nivoslider. I added this line to line 12 of js\jquery.nivo.slider.js
$(element).children().remove('script');

I also saw that create_function was deprecated on line 760 of functions.php, I replaced that with this:
add_filter( 'loop_shop_columns', function($columns) {return 3;} );

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