There is post posted in the forum on Oct 21, 2015, today is September 17, 2016 – 11 MONTHS! I had the same issue last week and WASTED 1 week working on trying to solve the problem. The images DO load SOMETIMES for a short time then disappear again.
Oddly, in the test site (www.testsite.inbishkek.com) using the magazine demo, everything works perfectly, after it was hand-copied to its home (www.inbishkek.com) and switched demos to the default demo (client wanted the text boxed) we’ve had nothing but problems with images being displayed on pages and posts. All settings are the same including plugins. Both the test site and home site work without problems on smartphones; Windows, Android (Google) and iOS (iPhone), as well as Windows 8.1 tablets, iPads and Android tablets. So the problem are not PLUGINS. It’s the code stupid!
Documentation about this problem cannot be found in the KNOWN BUGS or theme issues anywhere, just in a post in your forum – and I found this thread by chance! Instead of the bonehead advice from support to disable all plugins, I instead disabled lazy loading, and now the home page of the site seems to be working again on all PC based browsers, but only the FRONT PAGE has been working for the past hour. The problem is intermittent, it comes and goes randomly, so I’m not sure how long this will remain true.
The POSTS, however, still have issues. Only only some images showing up. So what could be the problem? Both sites are in the same domain, but test site is a subdomain – so that’s not the problem. 2 sites, same configuration except for the test site has lazy loading enabled – everything works perfectly. The home site, which was copied later after verification that it worked, and has had lazy loading from the beginning. We’ve disabled lazy loading on the home site and only the home page has no issues. We’ve created a “special page titled http://www.inbishkek.com/newspaper7-problems, please look at the screenshots, at the very least, visit the links before answering this query.
The screenshots are from identical post pages of the two sites. All images display correctly in the test site – the Huge IT slider and style 8 post, lazy loading was NEVER disabled. In the home site, before lazy loading was disabled, no post images, but sitewide sidebar displayed fine. With lazy loading disabled, images appear in the post but NOT the style 8 top image of your POST TEMPLATE and the Huge IT slider. This is happening in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi browsers. In Safari and IE everything works on both site versions. WTF?
If the shit does not work for ALL browsers, at least get rid of the defective feature! Don’t make us waste our time researching for solutions, writing these stupid posts and waiting a couple of days for replies. We have better things to do!
It is troubling that developers continually tout a feature to speed up site loading, yet fail to FIX the problem after 1 year! NO it’s not a plugin conflict, it’s a issue with your CODE!
I think everyone is getting tired of these bullshit cookie cutter answers by lazy coders & developers; “This problem might be a plugin conflict. Please try to disable all your plugins except visual composer and then activate lazyload and see if the problem is still there.”
This crap advice/response not only pisses your customers off, but it negatively impacts site development deadlines we have committed to our clients! Will I recommend this theme for a client? Definitely not. If they want it, I’ll do my best to dissuade and steer them in another direction.
iMediaGroup
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Asked and answered numerous times. Try disabling lazy load effect, try better optimizing your images. Check your cache, cdn, use of external tools like photon, smush it, etc that affect image loading.
Many of us long time users tired of the same questions over and over that are specific to your setup and not everybody else. 3 years later.
Sorry its such a chore to read the options to fine tune stuff. Man i hate wading through these rants. Oh wait, now im doin it too!
Thanks for the tips Chris…
Not ranting – frustrated! As I stated above, we’ve done everything suggested already. In the inbishkek.com site, is the only instance where the problem is happening. In the testsite.inbishkek.com, a subdomain of inbishkek.com, where we developed it, no problems, even with lazy loading enabled. iNBishkek.com was first created in the testsite, after verification that it was working, all files were copied to the inbishkek.com domain a new database created and config files changed to point to the correct domain.
We scoured through the bowels of these forums, found only 1 post from 1 YEAR AGO, and support’s suggestion was to disable lazy load along with ALL plugins – a bunch of BS! But we did, the problem remains – occurring intermittently, for example; it worked fine over the weekend, today – Monday – the problem reappeared again.
What is weird is this; in the home page all images appear. In posts – style 8, the slider and the featured image do not. And this is my main source of frustration with this theme.
Caching is via Comet Cache WP widget (FKA Zen Cache), fully optimized, we’ve been using it for years on several premium themes – never a problem. We also cleaned the affected browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Opera & Vivaldi. Safari and IE are not affected by the problem.
Prior to uploading images, each JPG is reduced in Photoshop to 72ppi, then compressed with Caesium. When uploaded, they are optimized again with EWWW Image Optimizer. For CDN, we keep it simple, we use CloudFlare from the hosting provider and integrate it via WP. Also, to avoid any issues with integral components of the theme, we purchased licences for Visual Composer and Rev Slider.
iNBishkek.com is not a play blog or a simple site, it is a business site. Our client, iNBiskek Magazine, depends on it for revenue and has been operating a website for 2+ years, with over 500K visitors per month and retained iMedia to give their site a complete new look and feel. Newspaper7 was chosen for its appealing look and future possibilities. However, one little problem after another, poor support, and here we are; 1 month behind schedule, over budget and a fully functioning site is nowhere in sight, so forgive me if a rant a little…or a lot.
Hello iNBishkek Magazine,
Even as you say in the first part of your response, you have not encountered any problem with the subdomain of inbishkek.com, even with lazy load effect enabled, right? Why your subdomain works fine and the main theme, not? Surely, exists some differences between these, and to the other hand, these could be related to your untested plugins that even if it are inactive, all of these can influence the proper functioning of the theme. Please send us an email with your log-in information (wp-admin) so we can further inspect your setup page. In this regard, I cannot help you if you will do not provide your credentials.
Thanks for your understanding!
