[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

Thanks, I do see the error is gone now.

So you know what I’m looking at. Load the page in Chrome (any page really). Hit the F12 key and then click the the Console tab.

There are several errors being shown.

The plugin that you are using for Ads By Google, disable that so that error can be removed.

Also, those 3 “Bad Request” errors … those are coming from the footer widget that says “Kürzlich aktive Nutzer”. You can see where three images are not being loaded. Correct those.

The goal is to remove all errors to see if any of those are the cause.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

The issue the other user was having was something different, a minor CSS conflict with the theme. The template you switched to is the Market template and is rendering correctly on your site (the categories are supposed to be in a “sidebar”).

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

I toyed around with the theme settings. There does not seem to be any option that I can find that would introduce that page load flicker.

I did notice something else on your site…

Can you deactivate the WordPress Popup plugin you are using? That plugin is causing a 403 Forbidden error right at about the time the page flickers.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

The good news, I get no flicker at all with the theme freshly installed with all the default options set.

Question.

Did you by chance have the all other plugins deactivated to determine it was a theme conflict? I ask, because, it is very possible that the flicker is a conflict between the theme and another plugin.

I’ll play with the settings to see if I can make the page flicker.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

Know that we know the cause, let’s see if it is solvable. I notice this flickering actually occurs on every page of your site. So, definitely seems like a bug in the theme and not really a conflict. You pages definitely should not flicker after being loaded.

You might want to ask their support why this flickering occurs. I’ve downloaded the free version to see if I can replicate the flicker on my test sites. I’ll let you know what I find and if there is a settings change that can be applied to remove that flicker.

[Steven Zahm]

@ gretar

Great to hear! On both counts.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janick

No, that is not correct, you add it to the existing shortcode, like this:

[connections category_in=4 enable_category_select=false]

fyi, there’s no need to use category_in since you are using only a single category ID. I would suggest just using the `category option instead. Like this:

[connections category=4 enable_category_select=false]

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rene

There is not a shortcode to do this, sorry. I do have a beta template/extension which you could purchase that would yield a somewhat similar result. You can read about it in this forum thread.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ gretar

Well, this is odd… I very distinctly remembering replying to you, probably on 12/9 or 12/10. I remember because I took some extra time investigation the site load speed. I have a tool that runs (a third party service) that pings my site every 5 minutes. The sites time to first byte is roughly 300-500 milliseconds and average page load time is between 2-3 seconds with about 5 seconds being the longest. The site is pinged from various servers around the globe.

Where abouts are you located? Maybe that can account for the page load times you are seeing???

Back to your question, use the following shortcode:

[connections order_by="first_name|SORT_ACS" template="slim-plus" enable_pagination='FALSE' page_limit=9999]

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jesse

You could use the exclude_category shortcode option.

Hope that helps!

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