Hi Folks:
Apparently my Enfold support license expired last September, and I didn’t notice because I don’t need to contact you guys too often. I’ve been using Enfold for years and really love how you guys have baked so may great layout, content, and media elements right into it. However before I get a new license, I do have an important question: For the Enfold theme, does Kriesi ever intend to “fix” how Disabling Of Template Builder Elements / Load Only Used Elements is being handled? Because from what I can tell, even in the latest version, if I use an Icon Box in only one of fifty pages on a site, all Icon Box assets get loaded for every single page of the site, not just the one that uses the Icon Box. From a performance standpoint, this makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever and nearly defeats the whole purpose of this setting. This can create a tremendous number of render-blocking resources, which causes page load times to be higher, which in turn causes Google to down-rank sites with this type of issue. PLEASE say you’re looking into this, because I would truly hate to have to look into a different theme or to pay for some caching or optimizing plugin when Enfold’s performance setting could just do what it should already be doing.
Thank you!
Scott
Hey Scott,
Currently, selecting the Load Only Used Elements loads those elements globally because they are needed when using shortcodes in widgets or the page based footer options. It’s very difficult to implement this without the risk of breaking existing sites or serious limitations.
We have this in our repo however we cannot provide an ETA for it, unfortunately.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Best regards,
Yigit