Title: [Plugin: Random Image widget] problem with 1.3
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Random Image widget] problem with 1.3

 *  [slasherkill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slasherkill/)
 * (@slasherkill)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/)
 * the version 1.3 caused my blog to hang all teh time. it took 45 seconds to load
   the blog when using this plugin.

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 *  [mproulx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mproulx/)
 * (@mproulx)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921471)
 * Hello,
 * Version 1.3 generally didn’t cause many problems over its seven months as the
   most recent version, but it did have one bug that _may_ be the cause of the slow
   loading. Try upgrading to 1.4b and let me know if that helps.
 * Based on your comments on [another](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/223156?replies=5)
   thread, I would strongly consider that reading images off of your new server 
   is the cause of the slowness. This plugin reads the full size version of the 
   images and lets the browser scale it down; using the browser to do this isn’t
   as efficient as doing it server side, but I aimed for simple on that aspect. 
   You could try scaling the images down manually and see if that speeds things 
   up as well.
 *  Thread Starter [slasherkill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slasherkill/)
 * (@slasherkill)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921587)
 * the images is scaled down before I put them on teh server 😉
 *  [mproulx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mproulx/)
 * (@mproulx)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921626)
 * What theme are you using? I’ll spend some time trying to stress-test the new 
   version over the next few days to see if I can replicate your problem and let
   you know what I find…
 *  Thread Starter [slasherkill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slasherkill/)
 * (@slasherkill)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921631)
 * Artisteer
 *  [mproulx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mproulx/)
 * (@mproulx)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921675)
 * Ok, the 1.5 code version inserts comments in the code that show how long it takes
   the plugin to read each directory. On my server, it takes 2-3 tenths of a second
   to read nearly 9000 images, and it is displaying the images in around .4 or .
   5 seconds the first time the page is loaded–it takes awhile, but nowhere near
   the amount of time you’re talking about. The images I’m using aren’t huge–somewhere
   in the 200KB-500KB range.
 * I think you’re problems are somehow server related, but take a look at the code
   and see what you find.
 * Thanks-

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-random-image-widget-problem-with-13/#post-921675)
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