Title: huge plugin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# huge plugin

 *  [kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/)
 * (@kengray20)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/)
 * Folks:
 * Weather Underground is taking up 22 per cent of my run time by plugin as shown
   by P3 Plugin Profiler
    Jetpack, a notoriously big plugin, is taking up 15 per
   cent. Is this the way Weather Underground is always going to be? It went from
   being a small handy plugin to the huge capacity plugin. I’m not sure I can afford
   this amount of run time for WU. I love the plugin and the new things offered 
   but wow is this big.
 * kgray
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wunderground/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wunderground/)

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 *  [thatryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatryan/)
 * (@thatryan)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369660)
 * Wow, it is hitting 60% on mine 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Zack Katz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katzwebdesign/)
 * (@katzwebdesign)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369667)
 * That’s not good! Do you know if it’s PHP or Database access?
 * It shouldn’t be heavy load at all, since the requests are cached and the templates
   are rendered using the [Twig framework](http://twig.sensiolabs.org), which is
   well-tested.
 *  Thread Starter [kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/)
 * (@kengray20)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369717)
 * Zack:
 * Thx for getting back. I don’t know if it’s PHP or Database access I’m afraid.
 * It is running big so if there is a way to make it smaller it would be greatly
   appreciated. I don’t think I can run it much longer as is because I’m expecting
   huge usage of my (bulldogottawa.com) site in the coming weeks.
 * thx for your help
 * kgray
 *  [mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/)
 * (@mharpen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369856)
 * It’s hitting 50% on mine, and takes up more time than the wp core itself, and
   almost twice as much time as jetpack. something’s gone awry with this new version.
   please fix. It’s also causing the IE11 browser screen to flash white between 
   page loads, due to the delay it’s causing. please, please fix….
 *  Thread Starter [kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/)
 * (@kengray20)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369857)
 * mharpen:
 * P3 showed the plugin was taking up 60 per cent of the time to load last night.
 * I have 21 plugins including the large Jetpack.
 * Will this plugin be changed or fixed anytime soon because I run a news site and
   I can’t afford to have it go down because of a weather plugin.
 * Love the new plugin, still running it but the developer must make it smaller 
   soon. I’ve got a municipal election coming up in Ottawa, my site is on municipal
   politics and I’m afraid I might lose the site on election day Oct. 27. That wouldn’t
   be good.
 * Can the developer fill us in on this perhaps?
 * Ken Gray
 * bulldogottawa.com
 *  Thread Starter [kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/)
 * (@kengray20)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369858)
 * Sorry, but one further point.
 * I see the developer has posted earlier.
 * I know the plugin shouldn’t be doing that, but it is. Other people are reporting
   it too.
 * Really would appreciate knowing if you’re working on the problem or if you’re
   just going to let it run as is.
 * If it’s staying the way it is, I’ve got to find a new weather plugin seven days
   before the election.
 * That’s not so good.
 * Thank you for your help.
 * k
 *  Plugin Author [Zack Katz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katzwebdesign/)
 * (@katzwebdesign)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369865)
 * I’ve implemented additional caching in 2.0.9, just released, which should reduce
   server load. I hope it helps – please let me know if it doesn’t.
 * I do think that the P3 plugin profiling wasn’t working properly with 2.0.8 and
   the P3 plugin was making the plugin look bigger than it is. Even so, the 2.0.9
   update should help server load.
 *  [mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/)
 * (@mharpen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369866)
 * Thanks Zack. It definitely shrunk the percentage of your WU in the P3 results.
   But I still have white page flashes in IE11. But if I go back to the old version,
   I very rarely see a page flash. Just to compare. It’s like 9 flashes out of 10
   page loads with the new version. And it’s about 1 flash out of 15 with the old
   version. Something with the new version is causing some kind of delay which is
   causing the browser window to show all white, while it’s loading a page, where
   it didn’t before. Even if I change my site’s background color, I still have white
   screen flashes. i’m happy to work with you if you want to try a beta with me.
   Maybe it’s the loading of the font library you mentioned? Maybe force it to Arial
   and see if that changes things. I’ll be happy to try anything. Thanks again.
 *  Thread Starter [kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/)
 * (@kengray20)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369867)
 * Zack:
 * When you get it straightened out, I hope you give this forum a shout. I’d love
   to put WU back on my site.
 * But BulldogOttawa.com covers municipal politics and we have a municipal election
   occurring on Monday. I can’t afford a plugin that at times takes up 60 per cent
   of my p3 plugin capacity when it is vitally important to have this site running
   smoothly. The weather just isn’t that important right now.
 * I’ve spent a lot of time at a busy time searching for a WU replacement. So as
   I said, I’d love to put WU back on the site. It was rock solid and I never had
   to give it a thought. I’d like that reliability back again.
 * kgray
 *  Plugin Author [Zack Katz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katzwebdesign/)
 * (@katzwebdesign)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369869)
 * [@mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/) If you want to not use
   the font, you can use :
 * `.wu-wrapper { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; }`
 * [@kengray20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kengray20/) – I feel you on 
   needing it to work. You can always revert to the old plugin for now. [here’s how](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wunderground/faq/).
 *  [mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/)
 * (@mharpen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369870)
 * Thanks Zack. That didn’t change the forecast font, I had to use:
 * .wu-wrapper * { font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important}
 * But it still didn’t get rid of the delayed page loads and the white page flash
   while loading a page. Perhaps because you’re still loading the font anyway.
 * The “verb” font you’re using looks very similar to Arial. You may want to consider
   Arial or another web safe font instead, and drop the additional font loading 
   since something is slowing the new plugin down noticeably. Thanks again for your
   replies. Please keep trying to solve the delays. I know I can use the old plugin,
   but I can’t rely on customers updating other plugins and not this one when wp
   shows that new plugin updates are available.
 *  [mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/)
 * (@mharpen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369871)
 * Zack, it looks like there’s a bug in the php code. This is getting rendered in
   the table tag (see the $width var).
 * <table cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ border=”0″‘.$width.’ class=”wu-table-2″
   >
 *  [mharpen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mharpen/)
 * (@mharpen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-plugin/#post-5369872)
 * Also, may I please suggest an option to turn “Off” the alternate rows background
   color when showing days in rows. It looks much better keeping everything transparent,
   especially when pages have a texture background. The spacing is fine, I don’t
   think there’s any need for the alternate row background color, in case you just
   want to drop it rather than add an option. Thanks.

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