Steven Zahm@ jon
re: is there anyway to make the plugin work where no listings show up on the primary page and still have the state selections show the listings by name only?
Take a look at this, I think that’ll do what you’re asking.
re: disabled your plugin and now the site runs fast again.
How do you mean? There is no impact on page load times except for the page which has Connections on. I do test this by having the most basic shared hosting plan available on Bluehost. You know the one, you can run WordPress on it, but you really shouldn’t. And all pages still load as well as can be expected. Even the page with Connections on it loads just fine, no real noticeable impact. It actually loads quicker than the core posts archive page in WordPress.
re: Is there anyway to make the top dropdown wider so I can fit my text in?
Here’s some custom CSS that’ll force the min width based on the long string placeholder string that is set. Just add it to the theme’s custom CSS area and flush your cache.
#cn-tile-plus select.cn-category-select.cn-enhanced-select {
min-width: 320px;
}
Speaking of cache…
It seems your cache expiration time is set to something less than 10 minutes based on the info in the page source provided by Super Cache. In the time it has taken me to reply, the page was cached and expired and cached again. On a mostly static site like this you can easily get away with a much longer cache expiration time.