ENFOLDS – SPEED OPTIMISATION
HOST: AWS Sever | Apache | CPANEL | m3.medium | 3.75G RAM
WORDPRESS: 4.7.5
ENFOLDS: 4.0.2

TARGET:
Homepage and other pages with the following ENFOLDS elements, reviewed and tested.

• LayerSlider WP
• Avia Layout Builder – Masonry Grid Build Animation and Interaction
• Avia Layout Builder – List icon animation
• Avia Layout Builder – Media – Image Load Animation and Hover
• Google Fonts
• Google Analytics
• Google Map API

Full Page test in Pingdom Tools.
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/b3wuUu/http://www.acahomeloans.com.au
This specific test was done on May 21 at 09:39:11 from Melbourne, Australia.
The web page took 590 ms to load, used 112 requests, and weighed in at 712.1 kB.
The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 96/100.

Final Implementation…
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WP-Rocket
The functionality WP-Rocket adds – is done by updating your .htaccess file. in-depth explanation later.
WP-Rocket | Basic Options | Files optimisation: HTML + Inline CSS + Inline JS
WP-Rocket | Advanced Options
Static Resources: Remove Query Strings – YES
Prefetch DNS requests:

• //fonts.googleapis.com
• //maps.googleapis.com
• //ajax.googleapis.com
• //csi.gstatic.com

WP-Rocket | Preload | Activate preload bot: Automatic | Sitemap preloading: Activate the sitemap preloading + Yoast SEO XML sitemap
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WPMU DEV – HUMMING BIRD
CSS and JS Include + Minifiy + Combine + script header footer re-positioning
Why Humming Bird? Humming Bird’s minify script was the only one out of so many minify plugins that did not introduce Enfolds animation and stylings display issues after concatenation – more in-depth explanation coming later.
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VENDI CACHE
This use to be WordFence Falcon Cache – which does an amazing job of serving cached static html version of your pages.
Vendi Cache | Cache Mode : 30 to 50 Times speed increase
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CLOUDFLARE
Free version of CloudFare
CloudFlare | Speed | Auto Minify: Javscript + CSS + HTML
Rocket Loader – OFF
Rocket loader kills LayerSlider WP and other Enfold JS sliders. You can create a page rule so that Rocket Loader is not active on the pages that have sliders – so that the rest of your content pages are not affected.
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I’ll try and create a definite guide to ENFOLDS optimisation, which plugins tested, pros and cons.

Back soon.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hello

I have seen the same message already before the update. I think to remember that it has been displayed in Wordfence.
Should I still update through ftp?

Regards
Thomas

I have provided you with the credentials. I verified the login using “Fetch” ftp client.
You may deactivate the plugins for a few minutes but please don’t leave Wordfence or Mail deactivated for very long.

Thank you for your assistance.

Hi Victoria, sorry for the late response was waiting for the new update to see if it would fix the issue but it hasn’t come out yet. I have re uploaded new wordpress files through ftp. I have re uploaded new enfold files through ftp. I am running php 7.1.1 and have tried deactivating and reactivating plugins. I have also checked config file and debug is not on. Like I said before, it is weird because I am getting these warning messages on this site and a few others but not some other sites, which are all on the same hosting company. Using the same plugins for the most part. Wordfence, WPRocket, Yoast SEO Premium and so forth. I have attached screen shots of what is going on so maybe you can get a better idea.

Good morning,

I’m devastated! Those are my login credentials and for me they work perfectly fine. Is there a way to solve the pending problem via FTP?
I’m not sure why it is not working? We are using Wordfence. Can it be, that WF is blocking your Login due to different IPs?

Best regards
Florian

Ok, I got the issue detailed here by you guys, where upon installation I got an error

https://kriesi.at/support/topic/please-read-regarding-wordfence-layerslider-warning-on-enfold-4-0-3/

I was left unable to access my site other than ftp. So searching though these forums i found the function edit that allows us to access the installation and work on the site. So I was left without a slider, buat able to do my job. Now I see that with Smart Slider plugin I get the errors that I have mentioned, the space between images, etc. I also would like to use the slider animation, that was one of the features that got me buying this theme. So again, for the third time, can I install a previous version where everything actually works? If I update to php 5.4 will the error described in your previous post be fixed?

In a nutshell, how can I use LayerSlider?

Thanks

Hi Victoria,
you solved my issue!
It seems it was a wordfence problem: setting the plugin in learning-mode for a while has solved the issue.

Thank you and best regards,

Carlo

Hi Mike,
Sorry for late on reply.
Just tried re-upload enfold theme,
but the problem still appear.
Now it appears also in dashboard, above wordfence info.
Tried to deactivated all plugin except wordfence to see if the error message still appear,
and the result is it’s still show error message.

Thanks for the link, I see in the given thread https://kriesi.at/support/topic/please-read-regarding-wordfence-layerslider-warning-on-enfold-4-0-3/
several users have the same problem, e.g. the user “hugaud” March 29, 2017 at 9:20 am:
“Updates indicator stays stuck on “1 update needed” but no updates available”
and Layer Slider system status reports it needs an update.

I know we can’t update Layer Slider separately from Enfold, but then the info of the Updates Indicator should be corrected by Enfold programmers too, so that it wouldn’t show available Layer Slider updates separately from Enfold updates.

We use Layer Slider, so we can’t deactivate it.

As far as I understand the Kriesi team is working on an Enfold update, that is going to solve this problem with Layer Slider updates and with the wrong Updates Indicator info?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by med.

I stopped using part of Layerslider to “fix” my issues from a few weeks ago. I updated the theme again tonight and I got this error and it crashed my site. I had to disable layerslider entirely which I really didn’t want to do but it was the only way to get in. I also do not use wordfence as a plugin. Is this error still PHP related?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/72/5288872/html/ancientcitybaptist/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-layerslider/LayerSlider/layerslider.php on line 109

Thanks
Carla

Hi, today was the update of Wordfence, and the problem is showing again…