Slow Speeds and Speeding up Concrete5 5.4

17 Comments

1. joe says:

   May 11, 2010 at 18:53

   are you sure that the v=6a090ad0238723 thing in the javascript urls are tied to the concrete5 version number? I thought they only changed when a newer version of concrete was released?
2. defunct says:

   May 11, 2010 at 18:54

   I think they are tied to the Concrete5 release, however for whatever reason those files with the “v” variable are never cached by the browser. Another thing I don’t know is why they load very very slow.
3. defunct says:

   May 23, 2010 at 09:44

   Sorry guys hard disk died on the server, which could possibly explain why nothing ever got cached for me, I will update the article soon to show proper results.

   Lost your comments Andrew sorry Feel free to repost.
4. Mnkras says:

   June 1, 2010 at 13:05

   Great job Defunct it does speed it up!
5. RiotAJ says:

   November 30, 2010 at 19:35

   Love this tweak in order to get jQuery from Google’s CDN.

   One note is that it will break the “Layout” functionality built into the recent versions of Concrete5 for users that are not logged in; however, if you want to get the layout function to work, simply insert the if ($u->isRegistered()) { AFTER ccm.base.css. Should look something like this:

   
$this->addHeaderItem($html->css('ccm.base.css'), 'CORE');
if ($u->isRegistered()) {
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript('jquery.js'), 'CORE');
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript('ccm.base.js'), 'CORE');
} else {
echo '';
}


   Hope that helps. Cheers folks,

   -Adam
6. RiotAJ says:

   November 30, 2010 at 19:40

   Looks like this site’s editor stripped the script tag referencing the Google CDN (after echo “…) when I posted that last comment. See the main post for the script tag reference.
7. Omar says:

   January 7, 2011 at 07:41

   I am using Concrete5 latest version.

   When I tried your code above if ($u->isRegistered()) {
$this->addHeaderItem($html->css(‘ccm.base.css’), ‘CORE’);
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript(‘jquery.js’), ‘CORE’);
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript(‘ccm.base.js’), ‘CORE’);
} else {
echo ‘’;
} I am getting an error referring to this line echo ‘’;

   It says string cannot reading!
8. defunct says:

   January 7, 2011 at 08:29

   @Omar

   That’s not my code, why are you echoing nothing?

   if you just want to hide the concrete5 jquery/css you don’t need the else statement.
9. Omar says:

   January 7, 2011 at 10:05

   that how is written the code above!
10. defunct says:

    January 7, 2011 at 10:07

    @Omar

    No it’s not…read it again

    
if ($u->isRegistered()) {
$this->addHeaderItem($html->css(‘ccm.base.css’), ‘CORE’);
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript(‘jquery.js’), ‘CORE’);
$this->addHeaderItem($html->javascript(‘ccm.base.js’), ‘CORE’);
} else {
echo ‘’;
}

11. defunct says:

    January 7, 2011 at 10:10

    hrmm it’s filtering the script tag out in the comment. Now I see the problem. It’s certainly written different at the top and should work. The problem you’re having is probably wordpress is converting the double quotes.

    Here this should work for you: http://pastie.org/1437404
12. RiotAJ says:

    January 7, 2011 at 18:21

    Use this link to get the correct code from my above comment:

    http://pastie.org/1438763

    This will enable you to use the CDN in conjunction with “Layouts” in C5. That said, Defunct’s code will work if you don’t use layouts at all.
13. Rafael says:

    January 26, 2011 at 09:51

    I was having trouble with Godaddy.com server loading a client’s website slow.
    This code really helped a lot.

    You also kinda killed the need to purchase they CDN add-on.
    Saved me some money.

    Thanks for tut.
14. Rodney says:

    February 13, 2011 at 11:25

    In the examples above be careful of the difference between the quotes used eg:
    1. $this->addHeaderItem($html->css(‘ccm.base.css’), ‘CORE’);
    2. $this->addHeaderItem($html->css(‘ccm.base.css’), ‘CORE’);
    In line 1, the quote characters are ‘xxxxx’ and in line 2 the quote characters are ‘xxxxx’.
    If you look VERY closely there is a difference. In the line 1, the ‘’ quotes are accepted by php on an Apache host but they fail in php on a shared windows IIS host.
    So if your site editing (tinyMCE) gets broken on Windows IIS after using this patch, just change the quote characters.
15. defunct says:

    February 13, 2011 at 11:31

    @Rodney I added a cut and paste link that goes to here since wordpress is butchering my code formatting: http://pastie.org/1437404
16. Rodney says:

    February 13, 2011 at 11:35

    Mmm I see this blog engine changes the quotes so they all look the same. What you need is two ordinary straight quotes ( '' ) , not open quote, close quote.
17. defunct says:

    February 13, 2011 at 11:37

    Have a look it converted what you wrote as well, that’s normal for wordpress.

    Anyway the pastie link is there for a plain text cut and paste.